Anticipation vs Comprehend - What's the difference?
anticipation | comprehend |
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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, 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)
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.1:
* 1776 , (Edward Gibbon), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Penguin 2009, p. 9:
To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly.
As a noun anticipation
is the act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.As a verb comprehend is
.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.
Synonyms
* expectingnessReferences
* * ----comprehend
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Verb
(en verb)- And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […].
- In the second century of the Christian Æra, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.