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Anticipation   /æntˌɪsəpˈeɪʃən/  /æntɪsəpˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Anticipation

noun
1.
An expectation.  Synonym: expectancy.
2.
Something expected (as on the basis of a norm).  Synonym: expectancy.  "An indicator of expectancy in development"
3.
The act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future).  Synonyms: prediction, prevision.
4.
Anticipating with confidence of fulfillment.  Synonym: expectation.






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"Anticipation" Quotes from Famous Books



... by Yue-ts'un need not be dilated upon. He also presented Feng Su with a packet containing one hundred ounces of gold; and sent numerous valuable presents to Mrs. Chen, enjoining her "to live cheerfully in the anticipation of finding out the ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin

... enemy might pounce upon them at any moment, and hurry them off to prison. Of course they soon learned how sweet it was, after two hours' walking of the beat, to turn in for four hours! which seemed to the sleepy man an eternity in anticipation, but only a brief time in retrospect, when the corporal gave him a "chunk," and remarked, "Time to go ...
— Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 • Carlton McCarthy

... down, looked at the young girl in a way which proved that he shared in Johnnie's wonder and vague anticipation. Alfred, behind his grandfather's chair, was the only one who felt aggrieved and disappointed. Thus far he had been overlooked, but he did not much care, for this great girl could be no companion for him. Amy, however, had woman's best grace—tact—and guessed ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe

... are those going out—young fellows full of northern health and energy, full of the eagerness of anticipation, full of romance skilfully concealed, self-certain, authoritative, clear voiced. Their exit from the bus is followed by a rain of hold-alls, bags, new tin boxes, new gun cases, all lettered freshly—an enormous ...
— African Camp Fires • Stewart Edward White

... The assailants knew they were there, and it could not matter a jot in what particular manner they were employing themselves. They could do nothing that could give those on the outside the slightest concern. It was the defenders whose interests required the anticipation of the movements ...
— The Lost Trail - I • Edward S. Ellis


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