Usually means: Anticipating or suggesting something beforehand.
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  1. prefiguring: Merriam-Webster
  2. prefiguring: Collins English Dictionary
  3. prefiguring: Vocabulary.com
  4. prefiguring: Wordnik
  5. prefiguring: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prefiguring: Wiktionary
  7. Prefiguring, prefiguring: Dictionary.com
  8. Prefiguring: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Prefiguring: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. prefiguring: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. prefiguring: FreeDictionary.org
  12. prefiguring: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. prefiguring: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  (gerund of prefigure) A specific instance in which something is prefigured

Similar:
prognosticate, auspicate, foreshadow, predict, foretell, forecast, presage, bode, portend, omen, more...

Opposite:
postfiguring, retrospect, hindsight

Types:
foreshadowing, hinting, suggesting, portending, foreboding, more...

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Similar:
prognosticate, auspicate, foreshadow, predict, foretell, forecast, presage, bode, portend, omen, more...

Opposite:
postfiguring, retrospect, hindsight

Types:
foreshadowing, hinting, suggesting, portending, foreboding, more...



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