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n. The act of anticipating.

n. An expectation.

n. Foreknowledge, intuition, and presentiment.

n. The use or assignment of funds, especially from a trust fund, before they are legitimately available for use.

n. Music Introduction on a weak beat of one note of a new chord before the previous chord is resolved.

n. The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

n. The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.

n. Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.

n. Prolepsis.

n. 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

n. Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.

n. The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

n. Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast.

n. Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.

n. The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord.

n. The act of being before another in doing something; the act of taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, before the proper time, or out of the natural order; prior action.

n. Foretaste; realization in advance; previous view or impression of what is to happen afterward; expectation; hope: as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven.

n. Previous notion; preconceived opinion, produced in the mind before the truth is known; slight previous impression; forecast.

n. In logic, the term used since Cicero (Latin anticipatio) to translate the “prolepsis” (πρόληψις) of the Epicureans and Stoics.

n. In medicine, the occurrence in the human body of any phenomenon, morbid or natural, before the usual time.

n. In music, the introduction into a chord of one or more of the component notes of the chord which follows, producing a passing discord.

n. In rhetoric, prolepsis.

n. anticipating with confidence of fulfillment

n. something expected (as on the basis of a norm)

n. the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)

n. an expectation

"Turns out the anticipation is usually the worst of it, except during blood tests where the ineptitude is the worst."

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