adumbration
English
Etymology
From Latin adumbrātiō, from adumbrō. Compare adumbrate.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /adʌmˈbɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
adumbration (countable and uncountable, plural adumbrations)
- (obsolete, art) Shading.
- A faint sketch; an outline or brief representation.
- (figuratively) A rough or symbolic representation.
- A foreshadowing; a vague indication of what is to come.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 238:
- The merest adumbration of an apology on Baron Veen's part would clinch the matter with a token of gracious finality.
- 2008, Diana Stirling, Chapter 8: Online Learning in Context, Jan Visser, Muriel Visser-Valfrey (editors), Learners in a Changing Learning Landscape: Reflections from a Dialogue on New Roles and Expectations, Springer, page 165,
- It will be argued that the lack of adumbrations in online communication necessitates explicit communication by participants in the process of co-creating meaning and context density.
- 2014, Walter Brueggemann, William H. Bellinger, Jr., Psalms, New Cambridge Bible Commentary, Cambridge University Press, page 71,
- Such a guarded Real Presence is an adumbration of the entire struggle of Christian sacramental theology with Real Presence.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 238:
- (philosophy, phenomenology) The form of an object as seen by an observer.
- 1991, Christopher Macann, Presence and Coincidence: The Transformation of Transcendental into Ontological Phenomenology, Springer, page 65,
- Just as the intentional horizon of the spatial object is made up of those adumbrations which would be implied were I to walk around the object and view it from different points of view, so the intentional horizon of the temporal object is made up of retentions and protensions.
- 1995, Herman Philipse, 6: Transcendental idealism, Barry Smith, David Woodruff Smith (editors), The Cambridge Companion to Husserl, Cambridge University Press, page 258,
- Obviously, he assumes that adumbrations exist in consciousness and that they are real parts of the stream of conscious experiences. Otherwise he should have inferred from the thought-experiment of the destruction of the world that in this case consciousness would exist together with a chaotic stream of adumbrations.
- 1991, Christopher Macann, Presence and Coincidence: The Transformation of Transcendental into Ontological Phenomenology, Springer, page 65,
- (heraldry) The shadow or outline of a figure.
Usage notes
- The phenomenology sense is particularly associated with the work of German philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859—1938).
Derived terms
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