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Anticipation vs Prophecy - What's the difference?

anticipation | prophecy |

As nouns the difference between anticipation and prophecy

is that anticipation is the act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order while prophecy is a prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.

As a verb prophecy is

dated form of lang=en.

anticipation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery.
  • The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
  • * Thodey
    • The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
  • (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)
    • Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds.

    Synonyms

    * expectingness

    Related terms

    * anticipate * anticipator * anticipatory

    References

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    prophecy

    English

    (wikipedia prophecy)

    Noun

    (prophecies)
  • A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.
    • French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book .

    Derived terms

    * self-fulfilling prophecy * self-defeating prophecy

    Related terms

    * prophesy * prophet * prophetic

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • * 1967 , George King, The Five Temples Of God , The Aetherius Society (2014 edition), page 19:
    • The manipulation of these tremendous beneficient energies helped the world so well that the vast majority of these prophecied catastrophies did not happen.
  • * Marjorie Garber, “ ” (Quotation Marks)'' in 2001 , S.I. Salamensky, ''Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation , Routledge, page 142:
    • One prophecied a change of fortunes for the club:
  • * 2013 , Theodor Adorno, The Jargon of Authenticity , Routledge, page 135:
    • The Heideggerian tone of voice is indeed prophecied in Schiller’s discussion of dignity.
  • * 2014 , Emran El-Badawi, The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions , Routledge, page 85:
    • the parable in Mark 12:1—5 where some of Jesus’s followers who prophecied and were martyred in Antioch (Q 36;13—25; cf. 11:91);