prefigurative
/ˌpriːˈfɪɡjərətɪv/
adjective
- Serving as an early sign or model of something that will appear or happen later.
- The protest was prefigurative, showing what larger demonstrations might look like.
- The small community garden was a prefigurative example of the city's future urban farming program.
- Her early paintings were prefigurative of the abstract style she would later develop.
- Relating to or involving the act of imagining or representing something in advance.
- The writer's prefigurative vision of a connected world anticipated the internet.
- Many prefigurative political movements try to create the future society in the present.
- The architect's prefigurative drawings showed the building long before construction began.
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