anticipation

[An*tic`i*pa·tion]

Anticipation is excitement, waiting eagerly for something you know is going to happen. Someone who has just proposed marriage waits in anticipation for a positive reply.

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

Noun
the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)

Noun
something expected (as on the basis of a norm); "each of them had their own anticipations"; "an indicator of expectancy in development"

Noun
pleasurable expectation

Noun
some early entity whose type or style anticipates a later one; "there were many anticipations of Darwinian theory"; "the hour glass was an anticipation of the clock"

Noun
wishing with confidence of fulfillment

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

n.
Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven.

n.
Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.

n.
The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord.


Anticipation

An*tic`i*pa"tion , n. [L. anticipatio: cf. F. anticipation.] 1. The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery.
2. Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven.
The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just.
3. Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds.
4. (Mus.) The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord. Syn. -- Preoccupation; preclusion; foretaste; prelibation; antepast; pregustation; preconception; expectation; foresight; forethought.

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

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Usage Examples

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.

The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

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