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anticipation
  1. The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
  2. The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
  3. (finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
  4. (rhetoric) Prolepsis.
  5. (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.
  6. (obsolete) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “The people started gathering around, and a feeling of anticipation filled the air.”
      “When we negotiated the contract in 1967, there was an anticipation that they would need a capacity bank.”
      “However, any sense of real drama is impaired by anticipation of the next sight gag.”
anticipator
  1. One who anticipates.
  2. A device in a thermostat that determines when to turn on or shut off the heating or cooling mechanism.
  3. Examples:
    1. “It has lost that magic touch which once made it the most accurate anticipator and satisfier of consumer needs and tastes.”
      “He is a great anticipator who makes up for a lack of speed with toughness and size.”
      “If adjustments are necessary, move heat anticipator pointer slightly and recheck.”
anticipointment
  1. (rare) The state of mind resulting from excitedly anticipating a strongly promoted product, event, film, etc, and then being disappointed when it fails to meet the expectations generated by this promotion.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The unparalleled media hype surrounding the new film guaranteed that fans would experience anticipointment.”
anticippointment
  1. (informal, rare) A feeling of anticipation followed by disappointment.
anticipant
  1. One who anticipates.
anticipations
  1. plural of anticipation
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This erotics of identification invariably frustrates the viewers' anticipations and appeals instead to their puzzle-solving abilities.”
      “It was the aroma of the Christmas cake baking that triggered the anticipations and excitement.”
      “Remember the anticipations of catastrophes brought about by computer meltdowns.”
anticipators
  1. plural of anticipator
anticipants
  1. plural of anticipant
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