Synonyms of the word

adumbration

• n. (obsolete, art) Shading.
• n. A faint sketch; an outline, a brief representation.
• n. (figuratively) A rough or symbolic representation of something.
• n. (heraldry) The shadow or outline of a figure.
• n. (literature) A vague indication of what is to come.

anticipation

• n. The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper…
• n. The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
• n. (finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
• n. (rhetoric) Prolepsis.
• n. (music) A non-harmonic tone that is lower or higher than a note in the previous chord and a unison to…
• n. (obsolete) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.

foreshadowing

• v. present participle of foreshadow.
• n. A literary device whereby an author drops subtle hints about plot developments to come later in the story.

prediction

• n. A statement of what will happen in the future.
• n. A probability estimation based on statistical methods.

prefiguration

• n. A vague advance representation or suggestion of something.
• n. Something that prefigures.

prevision

• n. Advance knowledge; foresight.
• n. A prediction.
• v. To predict or envision the future.

representation

• n. That which represents another.
• n. (law) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
• n. (politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this…
• n. (mathematics) An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector…
• n. A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
• n. A theatrical performance.