Word Type

Noun

The word "anticipation" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

anticipationism anticippointment teleoanticipation unanticipation

Context

finance music rhetoric

Has Property

receptive and open

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

abstract thought expectation hopefulness logical thinking outlook prospect reasoning

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

anxiety#Synonyms apprehension dread

Type Of (IsA)

expectation hopefulness

Related Terms

anticipate anticipator anticipatory

Related Terms

ant anticipate anticipating anticipator anticipatory chord debt eagerness feeling hasty impatiently impatiently waiting interest intuitive ketchup like like you non harmonic tone notion preconception prepayment prolepsis unison waiting you

Synonym Network

expectingness prediction

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