Prefiguring

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  • v. Present participle of prefigure.
  • n. A specific instance in which something is prefigured
  • Word Usage
    "The literature of twentieth-century totalitarianism, whether in prefiguring the epoch of Nazism and Stalinism or in drawing on it, often relied on un homme moyen sensuel — the luckless particle swept up in the process, or the worm from whose eye the titanic, forbidding edifice could be squintingly, even cringingly, scrutinized."
    Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    imagine    envisage    ideate    conceive of   
    Cross Reference
    imagine   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    foreshadow    presage    announce    portend