PREFIGURATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prefiguration mean? 

• PREFIGURATION (noun)
  The noun PREFIGURATION has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: PREFIGURATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREFIGURATION (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

adumbration; foreshadowing; prefiguration

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)