prefiguration
Early hint ahead
Prefiguration is a foreshadowing or anticipation of something to come.
In theology, events or figures in the Hebrew Bible are read as prefigurations of Christ—Abraham's near-sacrifice of Isaac prefiguring the crucifixion.
More broadly, any earlier form that anticipates a later one: The Greek city-states were a prefiguration of modern democracy.
In activist circles, prefigurative politics means embodying the society you want to create rather than waiting for revolution to achieve it.
State of awaiting something
- foretasteAdvance indication
- previewAdvance showing sample
- precursorSomething that comes first
- forerunnerOne that comes before
herald · presage · portent · forewarning · prologue · introduction · harbinger · foretoken
Symbolic tale with deeper meaning
- foreshadowingHinting at later events
- archetypeOriginal model for copies
- symbolismRepresenting concepts through images
- analogyExplanatory likeness between things
representation · figurative · parable · antitype · fulfillment · correspondence · pattern · prototype
Authoritative wisdom source
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- prognosticationForetelling future events
- soothsayingForetelling future events
foretelling · seer · clairvoyance · sibyl · prophesy · revelation · prediction · forecasting
Feeling or showing expectation
- utopianImpractically perfect in conception
- praxisCustomary action or application
- anarchismPhilosophy rejecting state authority
- activismDirect effort for reform
experimentation · alternative · horizontal · participatory · grassroots · communes · cooperatives · embodiment
anticipation
State of awaiting something
forerunner · herald · presage · portent · forewarning · prologue · introduction · harbinger · foretoken · signal
allegory
Symbolic tale with deeper meaning
- foreshadowingHinting at later events
- archetypeOriginal model for copies
- symbolismRepresenting concepts through images
analogy · representation · figurative · parable · antitype · fulfillment · correspondence · pattern · prototype · shadow
oracle
Authoritative wisdom source
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- prognosticationForetelling future events
soothsaying · foretelling · seer · clairvoyance · sibyl · prophesy · revelation · prediction · forecasting · visionary
anticipatory
Feeling or showing expectation
- utopianImpractically perfect in conception
- praxisCustomary action or application
- anarchismPhilosophy rejecting state authority
activism · experimentation · alternative · horizontal · participatory · grassroots · communes · cooperatives · embodiment · enactment
prefigurationretrospection
Contemplating past events
hindsight · recollection · looking back · backward glance · reflection
prefigurationfulfillment
State of achieved purpose
realization · actualization · consummation · completion · manifestation
prefigurationdirect experience
Unmediated personal encounter
figure, effigy, disfigure, configuration, configure, transfigure, prefigure, transfiguration, configuring