anticipation
English
Etymology
From Latin anticipatio; compare with French anticipation.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /æn.tɪs.əˈpe.ʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
anticipation (countable and uncountable, 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.
- (Can we date this quote?) William 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.
- (Can we date this quote?) Thodey
- The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:
- The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; […] . Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
- (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.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Locke
- Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Locke
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- (anticipating, expectation): apprehension, dread; see also anxiety#Synonyms
Related terms
terms related to anticipation (noun)
Translations
the act of anticipating
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eagerness for future occurrence
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References
- anticipation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- anticipation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.ti.si.pa.sjɔ̃/
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Further reading
- “anticipation” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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