anticipation

Plural: anticipations

Noun

• an expectation
• something expected (as on the basis of a norm)
  • "each of them had their own anticipations"
• the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
• anticipating with confidence of fulfillment
• The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
• The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
• Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
• Prolepsis.
• 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.
• Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.

Examples

• He waited in anticipation of the arrival of Christmas.
• He waited with great anticipation for Christmas to arrive.
• Often the anticipation of a shot is worse than the pain of the stick.

Synonyms

expectancy, expectation, prediction, prevision, expectingness

Related Words

anticipate, anticipator, anticipatory