All adumbration synonyms

noun adumbration

• auspice — patronage or guidance (esp in the phrase under the auspices of)
• earnest — serious in intention, purpose, or effort; sincerely zealous: an earnest worker.
• preamble — an introductory statement; preface; introduction. Synonyms: opening, beginning; foreword, prologue, prelude. Antonyms: epilogue, appendix, conclusion, afterword, closing.
• vestige — a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence: A few columns were the last vestiges of a Greek temple.
• wind — the act of winding.
• signifier — a person or thing that signifies.
• prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
• divination — the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means.
• publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
• proclamation — something that is proclaimed; a public and official announcement.
• flash — a precedence code for handling messages about initial enemy contact or operational combat messages of extreme urgency within the U.S. military.
• showing — a theatrical production, performance, or company.
• betrayal — A betrayal is an action which betrays someone or something, or the fact of being betrayed.
• break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
• prophecy — the foretelling or prediction of what is to come.
• inspiration — an inspiring or animating action or influence: I cannot write poetry without inspiration.
• scoop — a ladle or ladlelike utensil, especially a small, deep-sided shovel with a short, horizontal handle, for taking up flour, sugar, etc.
• broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
• oracle — Oracle Corporation
• apocalypse — The apocalypse is the total destruction and end of the world.
• display — to show or exhibit; make visible: to display a sign.
• vision — the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.
• earful — an outpouring of oral information or advice, especially when given without solicitation.
• unveiling — a ceremony in which a statue or monument is presented or displayed for the first time by removing its covering.
• divulge — to disclose or reveal (something private, secret, or previously unknown).
• foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
• darkness — the state or quality of being dark: The room was in total darkness.
• dusk — the state or period of partial darkness between day and night; the dark part of twilight.
• screen — a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
• cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
• shadiness — abounding in shade; shaded: shady paths.
• umbrage — offense; annoyance; displeasure: to feel umbrage at a social snub; to give umbrage to someone; to take umbrage at someone's rudeness.
• blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
• coolness — moderately cold; neither warm nor cold: a rather cool evening.
• obscurity — the state or quality of being obscure.
• penumbra — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
• umbra — shade; shadow.
• semidarkness — partial darkness.
• gloominess — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
• shelter — something beneath, behind, or within which a person, animal, or thing is protected from storms, missiles, adverse conditions, etc.; refuge.
• precis — a concise summary.
• apercu — outline
• allegory — An allegory is a story, poem, or painting in which the characters and events are symbols of something else. Allegories are often moral, religious, or political.
• allusion — An allusion is an indirect reference to someone or something.
• analogy — If you make or draw an analogy between two things, you show that they are similar in some way.
• anticlimax — You can describe something as an anticlimax if it disappoints you because it happens after something that was very exciting, or because it is not as exciting as you expected.
• antithesis — The antithesis of something is its exact opposite.
• bathos — In literary criticism, bathos is a sudden change in speech or writing from a serious or important subject to a ridiculous or very ordinary one.
• comparison — When you make a comparison, you consider two or more things and discover the differences between them.
• conceit — Conceit is very great pride in your abilities or achievements that other people feel is too great.