anticipation vs likelihood

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. 

likelihood

noun
  • The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state or degree of being probable. 

  • The probability that some fixed outcome was generated by a random distribution with a specific parameter. 

  • Likeness, resemblance. 

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