ANTICIPATION

Anticipation

Anticipation, or being enthusiastic, is an emotion involving pleasure, excitement, and sometimes anxiety in considering some expected or longed-for good event.

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anticipation

Noun

  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. Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
  4. Prolepsis.
  5. 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. Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.


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