backshadowing

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

backshadowing (countable and uncountable, plural backshadowings)

  1. (literature) A literary device in which an author shows how an event that already occurred affects the future.

Verb[edit]

backshadowing

  1. present participle and gerund of backshadow

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