Eager vs Anticipation - What's the difference?
eager | anticipation |
(obsolete) Sharp; sour; acid.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
(rfc-sense) Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement.
* Keble
* Hawthorne
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
* John Locke
(comptheory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.
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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, 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)
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between eager and anticipation
is that eager is (obsolete) sharp; keen; bitter; severe while anticipation is (obsolete) hasty notion; intuitive preconception.As nouns the difference between eager and anticipation
is that eager is (tidal bore) while anticipation is the act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.As an adjective eager
is (obsolete) sharp; sour; acid.eager
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) eger, from (etyl) egre (French aigre), from (etyl) ; see acid, acerb, etc. Compare vinegar, alegar.Adjective
(er)- like eager droppings into milk
- eager words
- a nipping and an eager air
- When to her eager lips is brought / Her infant's thrilling kiss.
- a crowd of eager and curious schoolboys
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- Gold will be sometimes so eager , as artists call it, that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself.
- an eager algorithm
Synonyms
* raringDerived terms
* eager beaver * eagerly * eagernessEtymology 2
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*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.