anticipation vs conjecture

anticipation

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

  • Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest. 

  • 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. 

  • Prolepsis. 

  • The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur. 

conjecture

noun
  • A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess. 

  • A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven. 

  • A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis. 

verb
  • To infer on slight evidence; to guess at. 

  • To guess; to venture an unproven idea. 

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