Synonym: expectancy, expectation, prediction, prevision. Similar words: participation, anticipate, emancipation, participate, participant, dissipation, constipation, antipathy. Meaning: [æn‚tɪsɪ'peɪʃn] 
n. 1. pleasurable expectation 2. something expected (as on the basis of a norm) 3. the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) 4. wishing with confidence of fulfillment.
n. 1. pleasurable expectation 2. something expected (as on the basis of a norm) 3. the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) 4. wishing with confidence of fulfillment. 
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61. When your words are likely to push his buttons, use anticipation.
62. So my birth, as I was told, was awaited with great anticipation.
63. Everyone was in a fairly constant state of edgy anticipation and nervousness throughout the tour.
64. For weeks, Schwarzenegger has been meeting with other agencies, including William Morris, in anticipation of changing representation.
65. He felt a sense of anticipation as he set off towards the house.
66. A more marginal case is where the defendant is seen to be raising his fists in anticipation of the fight.
67. For, as his master opened the kitchen door, there, in eager anticipation, stood Azor.
68. Just as the dying person will make preparation in anticipation, so will the people around.
69. The musclebound horseflies retreat and return; they rest, rubbing their hands together in anticipation and spite.
70. The parents march off, clutching little hands with authority, anticipation and expectation.
71. By rights, she knew she ought to be feeling extra anticipation now.
72. Within it the structural goal is known as an arrival, a movement towards it an anticipation.
73. The baby robins, scrub jays, finches, sparrows and starlings opened their mouths wide in anticipation.
74. The first period seemed to suggest that this game would not live up to the anticipation.
75. The anticipation drained from her and for a moment she stood irresolute.
76. Then they slipped under the blanket, wrapped into each other, their eyes locked in wonder and anticipation.
77. His own tightened in anticipation, and he swore softly under his breath.
78. When she was taken for further interrogation the following day, it was with mixed feelings of anticipation and dread.
79. Prime Minister Alberto Pandolfi said that police were securing the area in anticipation of eventual talks between the government and the rebels.
80. He called to the workmen,(http://sentencedict.com/anticipation.html) and they put their shoulders to the raft in anticipation.
81. The valley seemed to be waiting, holding its breath in anticipation of some terrible event.
82. Luke the hunter ... Folly felt a thrill of anticipation, mingled with fear.
83. So when the company makes money, its junk soars, in anticipation of the windfall.
84. The first major teen icon whose work is grounded not in anticipation and impatience, but vacillation, resignation and looking back.
85. At each intersection, Converse had cringed in anticipation of the bullet, the blade, the hatchet.
86. Was he relishing this moment, deliberately prolonging it in anticipation out of bile at the cadet's blasphemy?
87. We looked out the windows goggle-eyed in anticipation of fiery death.
88. She waited outside in the street, shaking in anticipation of the telephone call.
89. Meg felt a bubble of anticipation somewhere beneath her diaphragm.
90. Futility and anticipation of poor quality of life were the reasons most frequently cited by medical staff.
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