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PREFIGURATION

Pronunciation (US):

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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 ("prefiguration" is a kind of...):

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

Derivation:

prefigure (imagine or consider beforehand)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

example; model (a representative form or pattern)

Derivation:

prefigure (imagine or consider beforehand)

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