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Prevenient vs Anticipatory - What's the difference?

prevenient | anticipatory |

As adjectives the difference between prevenient and anticipatory

is that prevenient is of or pertaining to prevenience while anticipatory is characterized by anticipation.

prevenient

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to prevenience
  • * 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.22:
    • They drank and bet and muttered in an air of electric transiency, old men in gaitered sleeves galvanized from some stained sepia, posting time at cards prevenient of their dimly augured doom.

    Derived terms

    *prevenient grace

    anticipatory

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Characterized by anticipation.
    • The children were all wearing anticipatory grins in the minutes before the cake was served.