Anticipation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
Example sentence: Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.
Expectation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.That which is expected or looked for.The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything good to come, esp. of property or rank.The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.the arithmetic meanThe leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.
Example sentence: We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.