foreshadowing (n.)

  1. the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand

    [ Syn: prefiguration , adumbration ]

    foreshadowing (adj.)

  1. indistinctly prophetic

    [ Syn: adumbrative , prefigurative ]

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