anticipation
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English [edit]
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Etymology [edit]
From Latin anticipatio; compare with French anticipation.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
anticipation (plural anticipations)
- The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
- Often the anticipation of a shot is worse than the pain of the stick.
- Shakespeare
- So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery.
- The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
- He waited with great anticipation for Christmas to arrive.
- Thodey
- The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just.
- (finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
- (rhetoric) Prolepsis.
- (music) 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
- (obsolete) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
- Locke
- Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds.
- Locke
Related terms [edit]
terms related to anticipation (noun)
Translations [edit]
the act of anticipating
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eagerness for future occurrence
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References [edit]
- anticipation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- anticipation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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Pronunciation [edit]
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Noun [edit]
anticipation f (plural anticipations)
