Anticipation vs Preoccupation - What's the difference?
anticipation | preoccupation | Synonyms |
The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
* Thodey
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(finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
(rhetoric) Prolepsis.
(music) A non-harmonic tone that is lower or higher than a note in the previous chord and a unison to a note in the next chord.
(obsolete) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
The state of being preoccupied or an idea that preoccupies the mind; enthrallment.
The act of occupying something before someone else.
Anticipation is a synonym of preoccupation.
As nouns the difference between anticipation and preoccupation
is that anticipation is the act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order while preoccupation is worry.anticipation
English
Noun
(en noun)- So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery.
- The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just.
- Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds.