foreboding
for-BOH-dingnounMeaning a feeling that something bad is going to happen
Memory hook FORE-BOAT-ing: a bad feeling before the BOAT trip. Before the boat trip, Sven sees black clouds rolling in and feels sure that trouble is coming. That feeling is a foreboding.
Watching the black clouds gather, Sven had a foreboding that the fishing trip would end early.
In context Nothing seemed wrong in the old house, yet Maya was filled with foreboding; the silence felt heavy, and she could not shake the sense that trouble was near.
Similar apprehension, dread, premonition, fear
Opposite optimism, hope, confidence
From fore (ahead) + bode, an old word meaning “to announce or foretell.”