Anticipation
[æntɪsɪ'peɪʃ(ə)n] or [æn,tɪsɪ'peʃən]
Definition
(noun.) something expected (as on the basis of a norm); 'each of them had their own anticipations'; 'an indicator of expectancy in development'.
(noun.) an expectation.
(noun.) anticipating with confidence of fulfillment.
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Definition
(n.) The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
(n.) Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven.
(n.) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
(n.) The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Expectation, expectance, contemplation, prospect, hope, trust, ABEYANCE.[2]. Foretaste, prelibation, antepast, presentiment, forestalling, foreseeing, foresight, prescience, prevision, forethought, forecast, preconception.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Prevention, expectation, forestallment, awaiting, preoccupation, preconception,foresight, forethought, foretaste, prelibation, preclusion, pregustation,antepast, forecast, provision
ANT:Surprise, unpreparedness, Un-expectedness, inexpectation, actual_enjoyment,non-expectation, realization, consummation
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Examples
- It might be for a day or for two days, but I must be lost sight of on landing, or there would be recognition, anticipation, and failure. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There are other circumstances which throw doubt on this alleged Goebel anticipation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- So that two mutually dangerous streams of anticipation were running through the minds of men in Western Europe towards the end of the war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I enjoyed this scene; and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past, and the anticipation of the future. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I think Mademoiselle Lucy will now confess that the cord and gallows are amply earned; she trembles in anticipation of her doom. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- These latter troops--Herron's and Parke's--were the reinforcements already spoken of sent by Halleck in anticipation of their being needed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I had but a broken sleep the night before, in anticipation of the pleasure of a whole day with Em'ly. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- How had I sickened over their anticipation! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Her eyes were widespread in an expression of horrified anticipation and fixed directly upon me as I came in sight above the edge of the deck. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The bare anticipation of seeing that dear face, and hearing that well-known voice to-morrow, keeps me in a perpetual fever of excitement. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Oh, you did get a-talking about the trial,' said Serjeant Buzfuz, brightening up with the anticipation of some important discovery. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Frederick turned round, right facing the lamp, where the gas darted up in vivid anticipation of the train. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The defence alleged the Goebel anticipation, in support of which it offered in evidence four lamps, Nos. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I awaited it with great anticipation. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The world was ransacked for anything that might be claimed as an anticipation of what he had done. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They are anticipations of some continuity or connection of an activity and a consequence which has not as yet shown itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Ideas, as we have seen, whether they be humble guesses or dignified theories, are anticipations of possible solutions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This life--at least these walks--realised all Margaret's anticipations. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- There was no lingering among the old elm-trees now--no cheering anticipations of happiness yet in store. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- All such bright anticipations were cruelly dashed that night at Varennes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And the anticipations of future pleasures and pains are of a like nature? Plato. The Republic.
- Here, then, was one of my anticipations of the morning still unfulfilled. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- After climbing two pairs of steep and dirty stairs, he found his anticipations were realised. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The rest of the evening passed merrily enough in humorous anticipations of my coming life with the two young ladies in Cumberland. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The gloom of her first anticipations was proved to have been unfounded. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
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