anticipation

anticipation
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(Roget's IV) n.
1. [Expectation]
Syn. expectancy, expectation, looking forward, outlook, trust, confident expectation, eager expectation, contemplation, promise, prospect, awaiting, joy, impatience, preoccupation, hope, high hopes.
Ant. fear*, dread, surprise.
2. [Presentiment]
Syn. prevision, presentiment, intuition, foresight, inkling, premonition, apprehension, foreboding, foreseeing, envisioning, awareness, experience beforehand, foretaste, foreknowledge, forethought, forefeeling, preassurance, forecast, prior realization, obsession, fixation, preconception, preoccupation, a priori knowledge, realization in advance, prescience, hunch, a feeling in one's bones*.
Ant. surprise*, shock, wonder.
II
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
expectation, apprehension, preconception, foresight, dread, prospect, contemplation, foreknowledge.
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The condition of looking forward to something, especially with eagerness: expectance, expectancy, expectation. See SURPRISE. 2. Something expected: expectancy, expectation, prospect. See SURPRISE.

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  • anticipation — [n1] expectation apprehension, awaiting, contemplation, expectancy, foresight, foretaste, high hopes, hope, impatience, joy, looking forward, outlook, preconception, premonition, preoccupation, prescience, presentiment, promise, prospect, trust;… …   New thesaurus

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