3
concern(noun, desire, belief, confidence, courage)
3
consideration(noun, study, understanding, attention, exercise)
3
delight(noun, pleasure, enthusiasm, eagerness, exhilaration)
3
discretion(noun, care, caution, consideration, protection)
3
eagerness(noun, pleasure, excitement, anxiety, confusion)
3
earliness(noun, precedence)
3
envisagement(noun, expectance)
3
farsightedness(noun, consideration, prudence, forethought, foresight)
3
fear(noun, feeling, belief, hope, expectation)
3
feeling(noun, pleasure, idea, enthusiasm, eagerness)
3
foreshadowing
3
hopefulness(noun, desire, concern, cheer, happiness)
3
inkling(noun, feeling, idea, awareness, readiness)
3
precedence(noun, precedence)
3
precession(noun, precedence)
3
precognition(noun, feeling, care, idea, guess)
3
preconception(noun, care, caution, prudence, expectation)
3
premeditation(noun, plan, care, caution, consideration)
3
probability(noun, belief, hope, conjecture, assumption)
3
prognostication(noun, guess, estimate, prediction)
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