Antonyms of noun flash_back

1 of 2 senses of flashback

Sense 1
flashback -- (a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story)
       Antonym of flash-forward (Sense 1)
      => flash-forward -- (a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to a later event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun flash_back

2 senses of flashback

Sense 1
flashback -- (a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story)
       => transition -- (a passage that connects a topic to one that follows)

Sense 2
flashback -- (an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier))
       => recurrence, return -- (happening again (especially at regular intervals); "the return of spring")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb flash_back

1 sense of flash back

Sense 1
cut back, flash back -- (return in time; "the film cut back to an earlier event in the story")
       => return -- (go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before; "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean")

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