Anticipation (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. the act of anticipating or the state of being anticipated.
  2. realization in advance; foretaste.
  3. expectation or hope.
  4. previous notion; slight previous impression.
  5. intuition, foreknowledge, or prescience.
  6. a premature withdrawal or assignment of money from a trust estate.
  7. a tone introduced in advance of its harmony so that it sounds against the preceding chord.
noun
  1. the act of anticipating; expectation, premonition, or foresight
  2. the act of taking or dealing with funds before they are legally available or due
  3. an unstressed, usually short note introduced before a downbeat and harmonically related to the chord immediately following it
Anticipation (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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