prefiguration

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A vague representation or suggestion of something before it has happened or been accomplished.
  2. Something that prefigures.

Word forms

prefiguration prefigurations præfiguration

Etymology

From Late Latin praefigurationem, nominative form of praefiguratio.

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