- anticipation, expectancy - pleasurable expectation
--1 is a kind of expectation
--1 has particulars: suspense; fever; hope - anticipation, expectancy - something expected (as on the basis of a norm); "each of them had their own anticipations"; "an indicator of expectancy in development"
--2 is a kind of expectation, outlook, prospect
--2 has particulars: life expectancy - prediction, anticipation, prevision - the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
--3 is a kind of reasoning, logical thinking, abstract thought
--3 has particulars:projection; prophecy, prognostication, vaticination; prefiguration, foreshadowing, adumbration - anticipation - some early entity whose type or style anticipates a later one; "there were many anticipations of Darwinian theory"; "the hour glass was an anticipation of the clock"
--4 is a kind of entity
- anticipation, expectation - wishing with confidence of fulfillment
--5 is a kind of hopefulness
- anticipation, expectation - wishing with confidence of fulfillment