Anticipation
Related Definitions
[n] the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
[n] something expected (as on the basis of a norm); "each of them had their own anticipations"; "an indicator of expectancy in development"
[n] pleasurable expectation
[n] some early entity whose type or style anticipates a later one; "there were many anticipations of Darwinian theory"; "the hour glass was an anticipation of the clock"
[n] wishing with confidence of fulfillment
Related Terms
a priori knowledge, anachronism, antecedence, antecedency, antedate, antedating, anteriority, apprehension, attention, beginnings, buddhi, care, carefulness, caution, certainty, circumspection, circumspectness, clairvoyance, concern, confidence, considera