Anticipation

//ænˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) wordnet
  3. 3
    The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur. countable, uncountable

    "He waited with great anticipation for Christmas to arrive."

  4. 4
    something expected (as on the basis of a norm) wordnet
  5. 5
    Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    an expectation wordnet
  2. 7
    Prolepsis. countable, rhetoric, uncountable
  3. 8
    anticipating with confidence of fulfillment wordnet
  4. 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
  5. 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.

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