Anticipation

• Date: 14th century

Definitions

• 1 a : a prior action that takes into account or forestalls a later action

b : the act of looking forward; especially : pleasurable expectation

• 2 : the use of money before it is available
• 3 a : visualization of a future event or state

b : an object or form that anticipates a later type

• 4 : the early sounding of one or more tones of a succeeding chord to form a temporary dissonance

Description

A review, analysis, and synthesis of past definitions and usages of the foresight concept into a generic definition, in order to make the concept measurable has classified foresight as a behavior

Specifically, foresight has been defined as:

"Degree of analyzing present contingencies and degree of moving the analysis of present contingencies across time, and degree of analyzing a desired future state or states a degree ahead in time with regard to contingencies under control, as well as degree of analyzing courses of action a degree ahead in time to arrive at the desired future state."[1]