in music. For titles of songs with the word Anticipation, see Anticipation (disambiguation). In phenomenology For phenomenological philosopher Edmund Husserl, anticipation is an essential feature of human action. "In every action we know the goal in advance in the form of an anticipation that is 'empty', in the sense of vague...and [we] seek by our action to bring it step by step to concrete realization". See also Prediction Expectation (epistemic) Hope Optimism Faith Confidence Delayed gratification References Defence mechanisms Emotions de:Antizipation (Psychologie) tr:Beklenti