Anticipation can refer to:
- Anticipation (emotion), an emotion involving pleasure in considering some expected or longed-for good event, or irritation at having to wait
Anticipation can also refer to:
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Famous quotes containing the word anticipation:
“There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
—Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)
“Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.”
—Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886)
“In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the last result, but a greater refinement already than is ever attained by man.... Nature is prepared to welcome into her scenery the finest work of human art, for she is herself an art so cunning that the artist never appears in his work.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)