prefiguration

1 an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come

2 the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand [syn: foreshadowing, adumbration]

English

Noun

prefiguration

1. an vague advance representation or suggestion of something
2. something that prefigures

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