Definitions
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- n. What precedes or produces a particular outcome; events that have yet to occur, or are in the process of occurring.
Etymologies
From before + math (“a mowing”), by analogy with aftermath. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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In this new economy however, we must learn to manage the beforemath; that is, the consequences of events that have not yet occurred.
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There is no completed act, no boundwork of art in which the present might find its face, there is only the retrospect, the beforemath: as Lowell put it, "my eyes have seen what my hand did."
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