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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:
Similar:
prophetic; prophetical (foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb foreshadow
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