A feeling that something bad is about to happen; an intuition or warning sign of future misfortune.
From 'forbode' (verb) + '-ing' (gerund/noun suffix). Related to 'foreboding,' which combines 'fore-' (before) + 'boding' (announcing). The concept of something announcing trouble before it arrives.
While 'foreboding' is common today, 'forboding' is the archaic spelling—showing how modern spelling standardization happened gradually, with '-fore-' becoming standard over 'for-' by the 1800s.
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