noun

• The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
• The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
• (finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
• (rhetoric) Prolepsis.
• (music) 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.
• (obsolete) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.