prefiguration

名词 prefiguration:

1. an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come
2. the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
   同义词：foreshadowing, adumbration

pre.fig.u.ra.tion

n.（名词）
The act of representing, suggesting, or imagining in advance.
预示：预先表现、暗示或想象的行为
Something that prefigures; a foreshadowing.
先兆：预示的事物；先兆