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FORESHADOWING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand

Synonyms:

adumbration; foreshadowing; prefiguration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("foreshadowing" is a kind of...):

anticipation; prediction; prevision (the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future))

Derivation:

foreshadow (indicate, as with a sign or an omen)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Indistinctly prophetic

Synonyms:

adumbrative; foreshadowing; prefigurative

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

prophetic; prophetical (foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention)

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb foreshadow

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