FORESHADOWING
Dictionary entry overview: What does foreshadowing mean? • FORESHADOWING (noun)
The noun FORESHADOWING has 1 sense:
1. the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
Familiarity information: FORESHADOWING used as a noun is very rare.
• FORESHADOWING (adjective)
The adjective FORESHADOWING has 1 sense:
1. indistinctly prophetic
Familiarity information: FORESHADOWING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FORESHADOWING (noun)
Meaning:
The act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
adumbration; foreshadowing; prefiguration
Hypernyms ("foreshadowing" is a kind of...):
anticipation; prediction; prevision (the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future))
• FORESHADOWING (adjective)
Meaning:
Indistinctly prophetic
Synonyms:
adumbrative; foreshadowing; prefigurative
Similar:
prophetic; prophetical (foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention)
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