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unanticipation

unanticipation noun: lack of anticipation.

Noun

unanticipation (uncountable)

  1. Lack of anticipation.
    • Yet, he indicated on the base of recent literature, there is a lot of ignored anticipation going on, and the assumption of unanticipation simply does not hold anymore, […]2018, Adriana Mica, Sociology as Analysis of the Unintended

Origin of unanticipation

From un- + anticipation.

Questions about unanticipation

What does unanticipation mean?
Unanticipation means lack of anticipation.
What part of speech is unanticipation?
Unanticipation is a noun.

Words near unanticipation in the dictionary

  1. unanthropomorphized
  2. unanticipated
  3. unanticipatedly
  4. unanticipating
  5. unanticipatingly
  6. unanticipation
  7. unanticipative
  8. unanticoagulated
  9. unantiquated
  10. unantique
  11. Unanue

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