Definition of "adumbration" in English

noun

1. (uncountable) The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.

2. (countable) A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.

3. (countable, uncountable, figuratively) A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.

4. (countable, philosophy, specifically phenomenology) The form of an object as seen by an observer.