Anticipation Synonyms and Antonyms

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Expectation
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. expectancy
  2. expectation
  3. prospect
  4. looking forward
  5. outlook
  6. trust
  7. confident expectation
  8. eager expectation
  9. contemplation
  10. impatience
  11. promise
  12. awaiting
  13. joy
  14. preoccupation
  15. hope
  16. high-hopes
  17. antecedency
  18. circumspectness
Antonyms:
  1. surprise
  2. fear
  3. despair
  4. dread
  5. amazement
  6. doubt
  7. wonder
  8. astonishment
  9. sensation
Presentiment
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. expectation
  2. foresight
  3. intuition
  4. inkling
  5. presentiment
  6. foretaste
  7. forethought
  8. prevision
  9. preoccupation
  10. expectance
  11. premonition
  12. apprehension
  13. foreboding
  14. foreseeing
  15. envisioning
  16. awareness
  17. antepast
  18. experience beforehand
  19. assumption
  20. augury
  21. foreknowledge
  22. belief
  23. design
  24. forefeeling
  25. envisionment
  26. preassurance
  27. forecast
  28. expectancy
  29. prediction
  30. prior realization
  31. obsession
  32. fixation
  33. future
  34. preconception
  35. guess
  36. hope
  37. a priori knowledge
  38. realization in advance
  39. prescience
  40. postulation
  41. hunch
  42. preclusion
  43. a feeling in one's bones
  44. presumption
  45. prolepsis
  46. readiness
  47. tlc
  48. reasoning
  49. speculation
  50. supposition
  51. suspicion
  52. trust
  53. wish
  54. foregleam
  55. preexistence
  56. prepublication
  57. satori
  58. unpunctuality
Antonyms:
  1. surprise
  2. unreadiness
  3. shock
  4. wonder
  5. doubt

Words Related to Anticipation

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Anticipation Sentence Examples

  • She closed the doors when she left the room, anticipation increasing her pulse.

  • The job gave him an anticipation of earnings.

  • We barely slept that night, in eager anticipation of glimpsing our first rays of sunshine!

  • The increase in customers resulted in an anticipation of increased demand.

  • I get frustrated sometimes, but... who was it that said anticipation was half the fun – or something like that?

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