excitement, trepidation, dread, anxiousness, frenzy, expectation, preparation, nervousness, buzz, anxiety, apprehension, preholiday, prelude, uncertainty, fervor, giddiness, euphoria, enthusiasm, upcoming, elation, pent, gearing, jubilation, uneasiness, jubilance, jitters, girding, wariness, angst, unease, crescendo, imminence, prepping, tension, likelihood, astonishment, clamor, adrenaline, mania, salivation, pre, consternation, offing, amid, runup, midst, hoopla, inevitability, amidst, flurry, fever pitch, optimism, foreboding, adrenalin, exultation, suspense, gnashing, springtime, foreshadowing, hype, jitteriness, hysteria, afterglow, appetite, skepticism, anticlimax, fanfare, overdrive, glee, tenseness, urgency, joy, fear, chatter, frisson, following, result, earnest, beging, wake, precursor, portent, awe, cautiousness, rejoicing, ardor, disappointment, exhilaration, eve, envisioning, joyousness, upswell, tempering, dismay, presage, drumfire, momentousness, delight, haste, en masse, spring, witching hour, anticipations, expectancy, foretaste, eagerness, prevision, reminiscence, contrast, assurance, contrariety, hope, inquietude, recollection, bustle, enjoyment

fever, foreshadowing, hope, life expectancy, prefiguration, prognostication, projection, prophecy, suspense, vaticination

aflutter, ahead, anticipant, anticipative, anticipatory, anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, beforehand, clock-watching, dim, dimmed, dread, eroticism, erotism, expectant, fear, fearfulness, fever, fright, hope chest, in advance, kind, nervous, prevenient, sensation, stakeout, strategic buyout, suspense, thoughtful, wedding chest

abstract thought, breathe, entity, expectation, hopefulness, logical thinking, outlook, prospect, reasoning, respire, something, take a breath

expectancy, expectation, foresight, prediction