Anticipation

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 1) The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
 * He waited with great anticipation for Christmas to arrive.
 * 1)  Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
 * 2)  Prolepsis.

Synonyms for Anticipation
expectancy, presentiment, hope, foreboding, forecast, forethought, apprehension, foretaste, expectation.

Antonyms for Anticipation
doubt, rear, wonder, surprise, sensation, amazement.

Related terms

 * anticipate


 * anticipator
 * anticipatory

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From anticipatio:; compare with French anticipation:.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: очакване, предвиждане, избързване, предвкусване
 * Finnish: varautuminen
 * Italian:


 * Romanian: anticipare
 * Spanish: previsión
 * Turkish: sezinleme


 * Spanish: anticipación