prefiguration

The act of representing, suggesting, or imagining in advance.

Something that prefigures; a foreshadowing.

The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured; antecedent representation by similitude.

The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured.

A vague advance representation or suggestion of something.

Something that prefigures.

the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand

an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come