prefiguration as a noun: - 1
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prefiguration
noun
1 prefiguration
An example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come.
Roget 511:
prediction,
announcement;
program,
programme [Brit.]
etc.
(plan)
626;
premonition
etc.
(warning)
668;
prognosis,
prophecy,
vaticination,
mantology†,
prognostication,
premonstration†;
augury,
auguration†;
ariolation†,
hariolation†;
foreboding,
aboding†;
bodement†,
abodement†;
omniation†,
omniousness†;
auspices,
forecast;
omen
etc.
512;
horoscope,
nativity;
sooth†,
soothsaying;
fortune telling,
crystal gazing;
divination;
necromancy
etc.
992.
[Divination by the stars]
astrology†,
horoscopy†,
judicial astrology†.
[Place of Prediction].
adytum
prefiguration†,
prefigurement;
prototype,
type.
[person who predicts]
oracle
etc.
513.
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2 prefiguration
The act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand.
synonyms: adumbration, foreshadowing.
Polish: antycypacja, prefiguracja
Moby thesaurus: actuarial prediction, adumbration, apocalypse, augury, auspice, betokening, betokenment, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, foreshadow, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foresight, foretelling, foretoken, foretokening, guesswork, improbability, indicant, indication, omen, portent, prediction, prefigurement, prefiguring, preindication, premonitory shiver, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, presage, presaging, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, probability, prognosis, prognostic, prognostication, promise, prophecy, prophesying, prospectus, shadow, sign, soothsay, speculation, statistical prediction, token, tokening, type, vaticination ... show more.
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