prefiguration — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A vague representation or suggestion of something before it has happened or been accomplished; something that prefigures.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   Those ceremonies were prefigurations of Christ to come : these traditions are defigurations and deformations of Christ exhibited

   This is a kind of early, obscure prefiguration of Marx's later theory of 'commodity fetishism'.

Noun

1. an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come

   Broader terms

   modelexample

2. the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand

   Synonyms

   foreshadowingadumbration

   Broader terms

   predictionanticipationprevision