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Outlook vs Anticipation - What's the difference?

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Outlook is a related term of anticipation.


As nouns the difference between outlook and anticipation

is that outlook is a place from which something can be viewed 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 outlook

is to face down; to outstare.

outlook

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A place from which something can be viewed.
    • Perched on the edge of the cliff was a hidden outlook .
  • The view from such a place.
  • An attitude or point of view.
    • He has a positive outlook on life.
  • Expectation for the future.
    • The outlook for temperature rises is worrying.

    Synonyms

    * (place from which something can be viewed ): * (view from such a place ): * (attitude, point of view ): attitude, opinion, point of view, viewpoint * (expectation for the future ): expectation, prognosis

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To face down; to outstare.
  • * Shakespeare
    • To outlook conquest, and to win renown.
  • To inspect throughly; to select.
    • (Cotton)

    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

    Related terms

    * anticipate * anticipator * anticipatory

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