anticipations

Noun

anticipation (countable and uncountable, plural anticipations)

1. 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.
2. The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
   • He waited with great anticipation for Christmas to arrive.

   Synonyms:

   electricity

3. Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
4. (rhetoric) Prolepsis.
5. 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.
6. (obsolete) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
   • [M]any Men give themſelves up to the firſt anticipations of their minds, and are very tenacious of the Opinions that firſt poſſeſs them; [...]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