Definitions of anticipation:

• noun:   something expected (as on the basis of a norm)

  Example: "Each of them had their own anticipations"

• noun:   pleasurable expectation
• noun:   some early entity whose type or style anticipates a later one

  Example: "There were many anticipations of Darwinian theory"

• noun:   wishing with confidence of fulfillment
• noun:   the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)