anticipation

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
2. 2
   The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
3. 3
   Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
4. 4
   Prolepsis.
5. 5
   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.
6. 6
   Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.