Anticipation

1. n. The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord.
2. n. The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
3. n. Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven.
4. n. Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.