anticipation vs contemplation

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. 

contemplation

noun
  • The state of being considered or planned. 

  • The act of looking forward to a future event 

  • Holy meditation. 

  • The act of contemplating; musing; being highly concentrated in thought 

How often have the words anticipation and contemplation occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )