prefiguring
Signaling what comes
Prefiguring is representing or suggesting something before it happens—acting as an early sign or prototype of what's to come.
A political movement might be prefigured by earlier, smaller protests; a novelist's themes are often prefigured in their early short stories.
The economic troubles of the 1920s were prefiguring the Great Depression.
Indicate future events
- portentSign of future calamity
- presageIndicate beforehand
- adumbrationPartial disclosure or outline
- foretokenProphetic indication
foretaste · intimation · precursor · anticipate · prelude · herald · forecast · preview
Classification by shared traits
- archetypeOriginal model for copies
- prototypeFirst functional specimen
- antitypeForeshadowed thing now realized
- foreshadowIndicate future events
allegory · symbol · representation · fulfillment · correspondence · parallel · pattern · model
Prophetic indicator
- portentSign of future calamity
- signMark conveying information
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- auspiceProphetic token or portent
warning · harbinger · forewarning · foreboding · premonition · presentiment · prognostic · indicator
Foretelling of future events
- prophesyPredict through revelation
- foretellPredict future events
- predictDeclare future outcomes
- divineOf or from gods
augur · oracle · seer · visionary · revelation · apocalyptic · messianic · prognosticate
State of awaiting something
- expectationBelief about future outcomes
- forethoughtPlanning before acting
- preparationArranging things in advance
- preemptiveActing to forestall
proactive · forward-looking · prospective · preliminary · preconceive · presuppose · envision · foresee
foreshadow
Indicate future events
- portentSign of future calamity
- presageIndicate beforehand
- adumbrationPartial disclosure or outline
foretoken · foretaste · intimation · precursor · anticipate · prelude · herald · forecast · preview · preface
typology
Classification by shared traits
- archetypeOriginal model for copies
- prototypeFirst functional specimen
- antitypeForeshadowed thing now realized
foreshadow · allegory · symbol · representation · fulfillment · correspondence · parallel · pattern · model · template
omen
Prophetic indicator
auspice · warning · harbinger · forewarning · foreboding · premonition · presentiment · prognostic · indicator · token
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
divine · augur · oracle · seer · visionary · revelation · apocalyptic · messianic · prognosticate · sibylline
anticipation
State of awaiting something
- expectationBelief about future outcomes
- forethoughtPlanning before acting
- preparationArranging things in advance
preemptive · proactive · forward-looking · prospective · preliminary · preconceive · presuppose · envision · foresee · imagine
- imaginingimagining, visualizing, envisioning, picturing, conceiving
- omensomens, omen, portent, portents, signs
prefiguringrecalling
Bringing to mind again
remembering · echoing · commemorating · recollecting · looking back
prefiguringretrospection
Contemplating past events
hindsight · recollection · recapitulating · backward-looking · flashback
figure, disfigure, configuration, configure, transfigure, prefigure, configured, configuring, configures