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Craving vs Anticipation - What's the difference?

craving | anticipation |

As nouns the difference between craving and anticipation

is that craving is a strong desire; yearning while anticipation is the act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

As a verb craving

is .

craving

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) cravinge, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A strong desire; yearning
  • Etymology 2

    From crave.

    Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

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    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

    References

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