# anticipation
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English anticipacioun, from Latin anticipātiō, anticipātiōnem.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ænˌtɪs.ɪˈpeɪ.ʃən/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ænˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən/, [ɛənˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən]
* (General Australian) IPA: /ænˌtɪs.ə.pæɪ.ʃən/
* Rhymes: -eɪʃən

### Noun

anticipation (countable and uncountable, plural anticipations)
* The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
    Often the anticipation of a shot is worse than the pain of the stick.
** c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the king and queen moult no feather.
* The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
    He waited with great anticipation for Christmas to arrive.
    He waited in anticipation of the arrival of Christmas.
** November 20, 1836, Samuel Thodey, The Honour Attached to Eminent Piety and Usefulness
    anticipation of that final hour which he had long contemplated as near at hand
** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; […] . Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
* (finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
* (rhetoric) Prolepsis.
* (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.
* (obsolete) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
** a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC, § 25, page 81:[M]any Men give themſelves up to the firſt anticipations of their minds, and are very tenacious of the Opinions that firſt poſſeſs them; [...]

#### Synonyms

* expectingness

#### Hyponyms

* (anticipating, expectation): apprehension, dread; see also anxiety#Synonyms

#### Derived terms

* anticipationism
* anticippointment
* teleoanticipation
* unanticipation

#### Related terms

* anticipate
* anticipator
* anticipatory

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “anticipation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “anticipation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

## French
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin anticipātiōnem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑ̃.ti.si.pa.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

anticipation f (plural anticipations)
* anticipation

### Further reading

* “anticipation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.