anticipation

Noun

Meaning

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

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

Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

expectation prediction expectancy foresight preparation confidence anxiety prospect outlook intuition excitement apprehension eagerness premonition foreboding
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Antonyms

gospel fact depression axiom requisition fear
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Hypernyms

reasoning prospect expectation outlook hopefulness abstract thought

Hyponyms

hope fever projection prophecy prognostication suspense

Related terms

anticipate anticipatory anticipator

Phrases with the word

in anticipation in anticipation of anticipating with anticipation awaited with anticipation with anticipation awaiting with anticipation

Examples

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. Aristotle

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. Alfred Hitchcock

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. Norman Cousins

There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation. Jim Rohn

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others. Henry Taylor

The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory. Eckhart Tolle

Close letter words and terms

anticipating with gusto anticipating with pleasure anticipatingly anticipationism anticipative anticipatively