foreshadowing

fore·shad·ow

F0255900 (fôr-shăd′ō)tr.v. fore·shad·owed, fore·shad·ow·ing, fore·shad·ows To present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand; presage: hostilities that foreshadowed all-out war.

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fore·shad′ow·er n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	foreshadowing - the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehandadumbration, prefigurationprediction, anticipation, prevision - the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
Adj.	1.	foreshadowing - indistinctly prophetic adumbrative, prefigurativeprophetic, prophetical - foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that proved prophetic"