anticipation

noun6

1. •
   The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

   • Often the anticipation of a shot is worse than the pain of the stick.
2. •
   The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.

   • He waited with great anticipation for Christmas to arrive.
   • He waited in anticipation of the arrival of Christmas.
3. •
   Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
4. •
   (rhetoric) Prolepsis.
5. •
   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.
6. •
   (no longer used) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.

   • [M]any Men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds, and are very tenacious of the Opinions that first possess them; [...] — 1705