adumbration

Noun

Meaning

The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.

A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing.

The shadow or outlines of a figure.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

foreshadowing prefiguration oracle simile type image apocalypse portent device sign representation comparison draft shadow indication
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Antonyms

fact information cover difference reality accuracy
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Hypernyms

representation prediction anticipation prevision

Examples

Everything that happens in the Old Testament is a "type" or adumbration of something that happens in the New Testament, and the whole subject is therefore called typology, though it is a typology in a special sense. Northrop Frye

In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas. Alfred North Whitehead

Close letter words and terms

adumbrant adumbrate adumbrated adumbrationism adumbrative adumbratively