Antianticipation

Antianticipation: noun. The opposite of anticipation, when one does not look forward to something, but instead dreads it and does not want to face that which approaches. Antianticipation always comes with something inevitable and so is quite a redundant feeling as one would feel much better if he accepted his fate and moved on with his life. Antianticipation is often described as "the impending sense of doom" and is a popular literary device in thrillers and horrors, first employed by Edgar Allan Poe.