prefiguration
/ˌpriːfɪɡjəˈreɪʃən/
noun
- An early sign or indication that something will happen or exist in the future.
- The artist's early sketches were a prefiguration of her later masterpieces.
- Many saw the first protests as a prefiguration of a larger political movement.
- The sudden drop in stock prices was a prefiguration of the economic crisis to come.
- The act of imagining or representing something before it happens.
- The film's prefiguration of a dystopian society felt eerily real.
- His speech offered a prefiguration of the changes the company would undergo.
- The novel's prefiguration of future technology was surprisingly accurate.
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