1. Noun
The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
2. Noun
Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven.
3. Noun
Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
4. Noun
The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord.
5. Noun
the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary
6. Noun
an expectation
Vocabulary classified under Emotion and tone
7. Noun
anticipating with confidence of fulfillment
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
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