anticipation

anticipation has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 12.

Definitions

• 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; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven.
• 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 predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
• n.. something expected (as on the basis of a norm); "each of them had their own anticipations"; "an indicator of expectancy in development"
• n.. an expectation
• n.. anticipating with confidence of fulfillment