anticipation
English
Etymology
From Middle English anticipacioun, from Latin anticipātiō, anticipātiōnem.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /æn.tɪs.ɪˈpeɪ.ʃən/, /æn.tɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
anticipation (countable and uncountable, plural anticipations)
- 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.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:
- So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the king and queen moult no feather.
- The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
- He waited with great anticipation for Christmas to arrive.
- He waited in anticipation of the arrival of Christmas.
- November 20, 1836, Samuel Thodey, The Honour Attached to Eminent Piety and Usefulness
- anticipation of that final hour which he had long contemplated as near at hand
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
- The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; […] . Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
- (finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
- (rhetoric) Prolepsis.
- (music) A non-harmonic tone that is lower or higher than a note in the previous chord and a unison to a note in the next chord.
- (obsolete) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
- a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, OCLC 6963663, § 25, page 81:
- [M]any Men give themſelves up to the firſt anticipations of their minds, and are very tenacious of the Opinions that firſt poſſeſs them; [...]
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Synonyms
- expectingness
Hyponyms
- (anticipating, expectation): apprehension, dread; see also anxiety#Synonyms
Related terms
- anticipate
- anticipator
- anticipatory
Translations
the act of anticipating
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eagerness for future occurrence
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finance
rhetoric — see prolepsis
music
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hasty notion — see presupposition
Further reading
- anticipation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- anticipation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin anticipātiō, anticipātiōnem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.ti.si.pa.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file)
Noun
anticipation f (plural anticipations)
- anticipation
Further reading
- “anticipation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.