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Anticipation
//ænˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. countable, uncountable
"Often the anticipation of a shot is worse than the pain of the stick."
- 2 the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) wordnet
- 3 The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur. countable, uncountable
"He waited with great anticipation for Christmas to arrive."
- 4 something expected (as on the basis of a norm) wordnet
- 5 Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest. countable, uncountable
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- 6 an expectation wordnet
- 7 Prolepsis. countable, rhetoric, uncountable
- 8 anticipating with confidence of fulfillment wordnet
- 9 A non-harmonic tone that is lower or higher than a note in the previous chord and a unison to a note in the next chord. countable, uncountable
- 10 Hasty notion; intuitive preconception. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"[M]any Men give themſelves up to the firſt anticipations of their minds, and are very tenacious of the Opinions that firſt poſſeſs them; [...]"
Etymology
From Middle English anticipacioun, from Middle French anticipation and its etymon Latin anticipātiō, anticipātiōnem.
See also for "anticipation"
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