anticipation

noun

The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.

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

(finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.

(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.

(rhetoric) Prolepsis.

(obsolete) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.

Roots

anteante- · Latin · before capio-cip · Latin · take, seize

Synonyms for anticipation

expectationn expectancyn previsionn predictionn prolepsisn apprehensionn foreseeingv forebodingn presentimentn forethoughtn

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