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Definition

In advance of concurrent commonly accepted ideas; showing characteristics of changes yet to be.

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In Context

  • "With his practice of dream interpretation by free association, Freud was both ahead of his time and behind his time."
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Opposite In Meaning

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blow the cobwebs away

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