From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Anticipation \An*tic'i*pa"tion\, noun [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. --Shak.
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. --Thodey.
3. Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds. --Locke.
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: pleasurable expectation [syn: {expectancy}]
2: something expected (as on the basis of a norm); "each of them had their own anticipations"; "an indicator of expectancy in development" [syn: {expectancy}]
3: the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) [syn: {prediction}, {prevision}]
4: 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"
5: wishing with confidence of fulfillment [syn: {expectation}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
123 Moby Thesaurus words for "anticipation": TLC, a priori knowledge, anachronism, antecedence, antecedency, antedate, antedating, anteriority, apprehension, attention, beginnings, buddhi, care, carefulness, caution, certainty, circumspection, circumspectness, clairvoyance, concern, confidence, consideration, contemplation, direct apprehension, discretion, earlier state, earliness, early hour, early stage, envisagement, envisionment, expectancy, expectation, farseeingness, farsightedness, feeling, first crack, first stage, foreboding, forecast, foreglance, foregleam, foreglimpse, forehandedness, foreknowledge, foreseeing, foresight, foresightedness, forethought, ground floor, head start, heed, heedfulness, historical error, hope, immediate cognition, imminence, insight, inspiration, intuition, intuitionism, intuitive reason, intuitiveness, intuitivism, knowledge without thought, lateness, longsightedness, looking ahead, loving care, metachronism, mindfulness, misdate, misdating, mistiming, parachronism, past time, postdating, precedence, precedency, precession, precognition, predating, prediction, preexistence, preparation, preparedness, prepublication, presentiment, prevenience, preview, prevision, priority, probability, prochronism, prolepsis, prospect, prospection, providence, provision, prudence, readiness, regard, regardfulness, reliance, running start, sagacity, satori, second sight, second-sightedness, sixth sense, solicitude, status quo ante, subconscious knowledge, subconscious perception, tardiness, tender loving care, thought, thoughtfulness, time to spare, unastonishment, unmediated perception, unpunctuality, very beginning
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