anticipation

Other forms of anticipation

plural

anticipations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anticipation

What does anticipation mean?

anticipation means "an expectation". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anticipation?

anticipation has 5 syllables: an-tic-i-pa-tion. The stress falls on "pa". In IPA it is /ænˌtɪsəˈpeɪʃən/.

What is another word for anticipation?

Close synonyms include expectancy, expectancy, prediction, prevision, expectation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anticipation a common word?

anticipation is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with anticipation?

8 words rhyme with anticipation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.