Definition of Anticipation
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
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Norman Cousins
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
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
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
At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.
Franz Beckenbauer
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert Hubbard
He who matures early lives in anticipation.
Theodor Adorno
Anticipation Translations
anticipation in German is Erwartung, Vorwegnahme, Vorausnahme
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