What does "anticipation" mean?

The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

How do you pronounce "anticipation"?

Pronounced //ænˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən//.

Common synonyms include: prediction, a priori knowledge, anachronism, antecedence, antecedency, antedate.

//ænˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən// noun

noun ·Common ·High school level

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; [...]"