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Anticipation

The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

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Adumbration 76% connected

The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.

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Hope 76% connected

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

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Prefiguration 76% connected

The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured.

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Prognostication 76% connected

The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction.

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Projection 76% connected

The act of throwing or shooting forward.

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Prophecy 76% connected

A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.

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Suspense 76% connected

Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.

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Vaticination 76% connected

Prediction; prophecy.

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Expectation 76% connected

The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

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Outlook 76% connected

To face down; to outstare.

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Prospect 76% connected

That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.

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Reasoning 76% connected

of Reason

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Forebode 74% connected

To foretell.

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Forebode 74% connected

To foretell.

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Synonym 4

Expectancy 92% connected

The act of expecting ; expectation.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Expectation 92% connected

The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prediction 92% connected

The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prevision 92% connected

Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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