anticipation
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əˈpeɪ noun
1.
the act of anticipating or the state of being anticipated.
2.
realization in advance; foretaste.
3.
expectation or hope.
4.
previous notion; slight previous impression.
5.
intuition, foreknowledge, or prescience.
Origin:
1540–50; (< Middle French) < Latin anticipātiōn- (stem of anticipātiō), equivalent to anticipāt(us) (past participle; see anticipate) + -iōn- -ion
1540–50; (< Middle French) < Latin anticipātiōn- (stem of anticipātiō), equivalent to anticipāt(us) (past participle; see anticipate) + -iōn- -ion
Related forms
non·an·tic·i·pa·tion, noun
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| —n | |
| 1. | the act of anticipating; expectation, premonition, or foresight |
| 2. | the act of taking or dealing with funds before they are legally available or due |
| 3. | music Compare suspension an unstressed, usually short note introduced before a downbeat and harmonically related to the chord immediately following it |
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Word Origin & History
anticipation
1540s, from L. anticipationem (nom. anticipatio), noun of action from anticipatus, pp. of anticipare (see anticipate). Meaning "action of looking forward to" is from 1809.
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Example sentences
Of all those who for hours stood there in hungry anticipation, comparatively few obtained a dinner.
No other kind of film offers that same mysterious anticipation as you head into a darkened auditorium.
And all the while, driven on by an anticipation of pleasure.
Sure enough, many of the cells throttled back right on the hour in anticipation of another bout of cold weather.
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