anticipation
Pronunciation: /ænˌtɪs.ɪˈpeɪ.ʃən/
The English word “anticipation” has 6 meanings listed here.
noun
- The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
- The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
- Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
- Prolepsis.
- 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.
- Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
Etymology
From Middle English anticipacioun, from Middle French anticipation and its etymon Latin anticipātiō, anticipātiōnem. By surface analysis, anticipate + -ion.
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More English words
- anticipated
- anticipatedly
- anticipately
- anticipatingly
- anticipationism
- anticipationist
- anticipative
- anticipatively
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