Anticipation synonyms
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Part of speech:
An expecting or being expected; expectation
looking forward
Expectation
The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything good to come, especially of property or rank.
Expectation or prospect; probable outcome
The ability or action of imagining or anticipating what might happen in the future.
Intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness, or an instance of such feeling.
prior realization
Presentiment
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Custody; care:
Intention or expectation:
A transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the second person or devotes something valuable now and here to his use.
Apparent chance for success
Expectation
The quality or condition of being impatient.
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The definition of a fixation is a point of focus, an obsession or the chemical reduction into a solid form.
confident expectation
Expectation
The act of occupying something before someone else.
A reason for hope
high-hopes
An aim or goal that is unattainable.
A prediction or prophecy
The ability to perceive or know things without conscious reasoning
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A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
A sense of evil to come.
Something envisioned.
The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer.
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experience beforehand
Presentiment
A sample taken in anticipation; enjoyment taken in advance.
Knowing beforehand, prescience, foresight, precognition
Deliberation, consideration, or planning for the future; foresight.
forefeeling
Presentiment
(Archaic) Foresight; forethought
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A preconceived idea or opinion
a priori knowledge
Presentiment
Knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foresight.
The definition of a hunch is a feeling or a premonition about something, or an arched back while sitting or standing.
To contrive, devise, or invent by such thought
surprise (related)
The feeling that something unexpected has happened.
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The definition of a presentiment is a feeling of foreboding or an intuitive feeling about something bad that will happen in the future.
Such a persistent idea, desire, emotion, etc., esp. one that cannot be gotten rid of by reasoning
Characterized by anticipation.
Marked by expectation
Feeling or showing hope; expecting to get what one wants
Commenced but not completed, partially done, generally used in contract law to describe an undertaking which has been agreed upon, but as to which all necessary formalities (for example, signatures on the document) have not been completed.
inchoative
(Grammar) Aspectually indicating that an action is soon to begin.
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The definition of intuitive is something done with from instinct, or something that is easy-to-use.
Capable of happening, existing, or being true without contradicting proven facts, laws, or circumstances:
(Grammar) Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable.
prevenient
(Christian Theol.) Antecedent to human action
Effective in the future. Newly enacted laws and constitutional decisions are almost always applied prospectively.
Arousing or apt to arouse suspicion; questionable:
antepast
A foretaste.
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The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
The art or practice of designing or making designs:
envisionment
The process or result of envisioning.
The indefinite time yet to come:
A judgment or estimate formed by guessing; conjecture; surmise
The act of postulating or something postulated
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(Countable) The act of precluding
prolepsis
The anticipating and answering of an argument before one's opponent has a chance to advance it
Use of reason, especially to form conclusions, inferences, or judgments.
(Business, finance) An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return.
Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture
The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
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The thing desired or longed for
To ascertain is defined as to verify or confirm something.
Assume means to fulfill the obligations of someone else's position by taking over his job.
To distinguish or identify (a disease, for example) by diagnosis.
To appear, often prominently
(US) to hypothesise
To make unnecessary
To have as a specific aim or purpose; intend:
To assume or assert the truth, reality, or necessity of, especially as a basis of an argument:
To say in advance (what one believes will happen); foretell (a future event or events)
To gain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially to settle on (public land) so as to obtain the right to buy before others.
To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.
Speculate is to buy or sell land or other investments that are high risk, with the goal to make a very big profit.
To make a judgment about (something) without sufficient evidence; guess:
To consider (something) to be true or probable on little or no evidence:
To propose a theory about.
To devise or evolve; invent:
amazement (antonym)
(Uncountable) The condition of being amazed; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment.
doubt (antonym)
wonder (antonym)
One that arouses awe, astonishment, surprise, or admiration; a marvel:
sensation (antonym)
The faculty to feel or perceive; physical sensibility:
Something foretold or predicted; a prophecy.
The fact or condition of being antecedent
circumspectness
The state or quality of being circumspect
foregleam
A gleam or glimpse of the future; foreglimpse.
preexistence
The condition of existing prior to the current time
prepublication
(Zen Buddhism) A sudden inexpressible feeling of inner understanding or enlightenment.
excitement (related)
optimism (related)
exhilaration (related)
sadness (related)
elation (related)
trepidation (related)
eager expectation
Expectation
realization in advance
Presentiment
a feeling in one's bones
Presentiment
shock (antonym)
The definition of a shock is a sudden powerful disturbance, shake or blow.
The definition of a belief is an opinion or something that a person holds to be true.
A ground or reason for presuming; evidence that points to the probability of something
To judge or determine generally but carefully (size, value, cost, requirements, etc.); calculate approximately
despair (antonym)
Loss of hope
astonishment (antonym)
dread (antonym)
Something dreaded
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