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PREFIGURATION
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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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