'anticipation' definitions:
Definition of 'anticipation'
(from WordNet)
noun
An expectation [syn: anticipation, expectancy]
noun
Something expected (as on the basis of a norm); "each of them had their own anticipations"; "an indicator of expectancy in development" [syn: anticipation, expectancy]
noun
The act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) [syn: prediction, anticipation, prevision]
noun
Anticipating with confidence of fulfillment [syn: anticipation, expectation]
Synonyms of 'anticipation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- TLC,
- unastonishment,
- unmediated perception,
- unpunctuality,
- very beginning