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Anticipate vs Unforeseeability - What's the difference?

anticipate | unforeseeability |

As a verb anticipate

is to act before (someone), especially to prevent an action.

As a noun unforeseeability is

inability to be predicted or anticipated.

anticipate

English

Verb

(anticipat)
  • To act before (someone), especially to prevent an action.
    • To anticipate and prevent the duke's purpose. --R. Hall.
    He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace. -- .
  • to take up or introduce (something) prematurely.
    • The advocate plans to anticipate a part of her argument.
  • to know of (something) before it happens; to expect.
    • to anticipate the pleasures of a visit
    to anticipate the evils of life
    Please anticipate a journey of an hour from your house to the airport
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=31 citation , passage=The task was more to Appleby's liking than the one he had anticipated , and it was necessary, since the smaller merchants in Cuba and also in parts of Peninsular Spain have no great confidence in bankers, and prefer a packet of golden onzas or a bag of pesetas to the best accredited cheque.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=October 2 , author=Jonathan Jurejko , title=Bolton 1 - 5 Chelsea , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=And with Bolton suffering a wretched run of five straight home defeats - their worst run in 109 years - Chelsea fans would have been forgiven for expecting a comfortable win.
    But surely they did not anticipate the ease with which their team raced into an almost impregnable half-time lead.}}
  • to eagerly wait for (something)
    • Little Johnny started to anticipate the arrival of Santa Claus a week before Christmas.

    Usage notes

    The words anticipate'' and ''expect'' both regard some future event as likely to take place. Nowadays they are often used interchangeably although ''anticipate is associated with acting because of an expectation. (E.g. skilled sportsmen anticipate the action and position themselves accordingly.)

    Synonyms

    * (to act before someone) preclude * (to take up or introduce something prematurely) * (to know of something before it manifests) expect, foretaste, foresee * (to eagerly await something) look forward to

    Related terms

    * anticipation

    unforeseeability

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Inability to be predicted or anticipated.
  • * 2003 May 28, Jim Porter, " Making sense of the rules of law," www.sierrasun.com (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011):
    • An Indiana appellate court, affirming a lower court’s decision, dismissed the suit, for reasons that include the unforeseeability of the accident.
  • * 2009 Dec. 6, , " A Victim’s Daughter Takes the Cellphone Industry to Court," New York Times (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011):
    • No man is responsible for that which no man can control. (The unforeseeability defense).
  • * 2009 , Bert Olivier, Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Theory: Collected Essays , ISBN 9783039119011, pp. 139-140:
    • This is what Derrida calls the ‘messianic’ structure of experience. . . the tacit possibility that the ‘other’ (or otherness) may surprise one. . . . [T]he very structure of experience exhibits this unforeseeability .

    Usage notes

    * Often used in contexts involving matters of law.