🎬 A future scene 💭 A future vision ⏩ To show the future

flashforward

8.5

A sudden clear image in your mind of an event that might happen

noun
/ˈflæʃˌfɔːrwərd/

: previsión

After the accident, he experienced a disturbing flashforward of losing control of the car again.

Examples

The movie uses a flashforward to show what might happen to the main character in ten years.
During the meeting, she had a sudden flashforward of herself giving a successful presentation.
Wow, that flashforward was unexpected!
The novel includes a flashforward to the protagonist's future.
As she daydreamed about her future, a flashforward showed her walking down the aisle at her wedding.
During the meeting, he had a brief flashforward about what his life would be like after retirement.
In the new novel, the author uses a flashforward to reveal the protagonist's success ten years from now.

Synonyms

prevision

vsflashforward

Archaic

9.9

A picture in the mind of a future event that appears in a dream

occurs as a sudden involuntary mental image without supernatural cause

Antonyms

flashback

Specialized

45 6.5

A sudden strong memory that makes you feel you are living the past

How Vivid

hallucination

140 7.5

vision

848 3.8

flashforward

8.5

mental image

7 3.8

imagination

717 2.8

thought

∞ 1.4

Surface Forms

flashforward singular

flashforwards plural

Morphology

flashforward = flash + forward (transparent) = flash + forward

The sense is a mental image projecting briefly into the future; the compound's parts directly convey that meaning.

Etymology

The word flashforward comes from flash ('a quick, bright image') and forward ('ahead' or 'to the future'), like a sudden mental 'photo' of what might happen next. So a flashforward is a fast, vivid picture in your mind of a possible future event.