different between prognosis vs anticipation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin progn?sis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (prógn?sis, “foreknowledge, perceiving beforehand, prediction”), from prefix ???- (pro-, “before”) + ?????? (gnôsis, “inquiry, investigation, knowing”), from ???????? (gign?sk?, “know”). First attested in the mid 17th century. Equivalent to Germanic cognate foreknowledge, Latinate cognate precognition, and Sanskritic cognate prajna.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p????n??s?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p????no?s?s/

Noun

prognosis (plural prognoses)

1. (medicine) A forecast of the future course of a disease or disorder, based on medical knowledge.
2. (medicine) The chances of recovery from a disease.
   • 1861, John Neill, Francis Gurney Smith, An Analytical Compendium of the Various Branches of Medical Science, Blanchard and Lea, page 858,

     The prognosis is unfavourable when the child is very young, when the eruption appears before the third day, or when it suddenly disappears.

   • 1987, Constance S. Kirkpatrick, Nurses' Guide to Cancer Care, Rowman and Littlefield, ?ISBN, page 132,

     Once the patient has worked through the stage of grieving at diagnosis, adjustment may be successful as therapy is begun and a prognosis is determined.

3. A forecast of the future course, or outcome, of a situation; a prediction.
   • 2008, Paul Fairfield, Why Democracy?, SUNY Press, ?ISBN, page 123,

     If free speech is the lifeblood of democracy then the fate and the prognosis of the latter are that of the former.

   • 2000, Guy R. Woolley, J. J. J. M. Goumans, P. J. Wainwright, Waste Materials in Construction, Elsevier, ?ISBN, page 19,

     The prognosis was made by taking into consideration the facts that the analog concrete had already achieved its ultimate strength by the period of 1500 days while concrete being predicted was to gain its strength limit by 1.25 time faster, that is by the period of 100 days.

Derived terms

• prognostic
• prognosticate
• prognostication

Translations

References

• 2005, Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised), Oxford University Press, ?ISBN
• 1998, The Dorling Kindersley Illustrated Oxford Dictionary, Dorling Kindersley Limited and Oxford University Press, ?ISBN, page 654
• 2007, Ed. Elizabeth A. Martin, Concise Medical Dictionary, Oxford University Press, ?ISBN
• “prognosis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (prógn?sis, “foreknowledge, perceiving beforehand, prediction”), from prefix ???- (pro-, “before”) + ?????? (gnôsis, “inquiry, investigation, knowing”), from ???????? (gign?sk?, “know”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pro??no?.sis/, [p????no?s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pro???o.sis/, [p???????s?is]

Noun

progn?sis f (genitive progn?sis); third declension

1. forecast, prediction

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Descendants

References

• prognosis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

English

Etymology

From Latin anticipatio; compare with French anticipation.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æn.t?s.??pe?.??n/, /æn.t?s.??pe?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

anticipation (countable and uncountable, plural anticipations)

1. The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
2. The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
   • November 20, 1836, Samuel Thodey, The Honour Attached to Eminent Piety and Usefulness

     anticipation of that final hour which he had long contemplated as near at hand
3. (finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
4. (rhetoric) Prolepsis.
5. (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.
6. (obsolete) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.

Synonyms

• expectingness

Hyponyms

• (anticipating, expectation): apprehension, dread; see also anxiety#Synonyms

Related terms

Translations

References

• anticipation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• anticipation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.ti.si.pa.sj??/

Noun

anticipation f (plural anticipations)

1. anticipation

Further reading

• “anticipation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).