Usually means: Envisioning future through present actions.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word prefiguration:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. prefiguration: Merriam-Webster
  2. prefiguration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prefiguration: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prefiguration: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prefiguration: Vocabulary.com
  6. prefiguration: Wordnik
  7. prefiguration: Wiktionary
  8. prefiguration: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. prefiguration: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Prefiguration, prefiguration: Dictionary.com
  11. prefiguration: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Prefiguration (politics), Prefiguration (theology), Prefiguration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Prefiguration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. prefiguration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. prefiguration: Rhymezone
  16. Prefiguration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. prefiguration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. prefiguration: FreeDictionary.org
  19. prefiguration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. prefiguration: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prefiguration: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prefiguration)

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

Similar:
foreshadowing, præfiguration, prefigurement, prefigurativeness, prelude, presagement, foreshow, forebelief, foremeaning, premonstration, more...

Opposite:
postfiguration, afterthought, retrospection
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Similar:
foreshadowing, præfiguration, prefigurement, prefigurativeness, prelude, presagement, foreshow, forebelief, foremeaning, premonstration, more...

Opposite:
postfiguration, afterthought, retrospection



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