Abschattung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- adumbration noun The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
Senses
Abschattung is used for these senses in English:
- adumbration (uncountable) The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
- adumbration (countable, philosophy, specifically phenomenology) The form of an object as seen by an observer.
adumbration — full definition
- noun The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
- noun A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.
- noun The supposed practice of displaying only outline of a charge (“image displayed on an escutcheon”), sometimes filled in with a darker shade than the field.
- noun A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.