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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun prefiguration has 2 senses

• prefiguration(n = noun.cognition) Array - an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come; Array
is a kind of example, model
Derived form verb prefigure₁

• prefiguration(n = noun.cognition) adumbration, foreshadowing - the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand; Array
is a kind of anticipation, prediction, prevision
Derived form verb prefigure₁

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THESAURUS

prefiguration

actuarial prediction, adumbration, apocalypse, augury, auspice, betokening, betokenment, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, foreshadow, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foresight, foretelling, foretoken, foretokening, guesswork, improbability, indicant, indication, omen, portent, prediction, prefigurement, prefiguring, preindication, premonitory shiver, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, presage, presaging, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, probability, prognosis, prognostic, prognostication, promise, prophecy, prophesying, prospectus, shadow, sign, soothsay, speculation, statistical prediction, token, tokening, type, vaticination

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