anticipation

English

From Latin anticipatio; compare with French anticipation.

anticipation (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.
- Shakespeare
  So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery.
The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
He waited with great anticipation for Christmas to arrive.
- Thodey
  The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just.
(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.
- Locke
  Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds.