Definition of Anticipation

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Anticipation

The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven.

Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.

The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord.

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Anticipation Quotations

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
Deepak Chopra

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Alfred Hitchcock

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert Hubbard

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
Fred Rogers

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
Samuel Johnson

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.
Umberto Eco

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Samuel Smiles

He who matures early lives in anticipation.
Theodor Adorno

Anticipation Translations

anticipation in German is Erwartung, Vorwegnahme, Vorausnahme

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