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Noun: adumbration  a-dum'brey-shun
  1. The act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
    - prefiguration, foreshadowing
     
  2. A sketchy or imperfect or faint representation

Derived forms: adumbrations

Type of: anticipation, prediction, prevision, representation