Foreknowledge vs Anticipation - What's the difference?
foreknowledge | anticipation | Related terms |
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)
Foreknowledge is a related term of anticipation.
As nouns the difference between foreknowledge and anticipation
is that foreknowledge is knowing beforehand, prescience, foresight, precognition while anticipation is the act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.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.