anticipatory obedience

== English == === Etymology === Semantic calque of German vorauseilender Gehorsam (literally “running ahead/in front of obediently”). Constructed from anticipatory +‎ obedience. === Noun === anticipatory obedience (uncountable) A situation where one attempts to predict expectations others (particularly superiors) have, without explicit communication, and to fulfill (or exceed) those expectations. Snyder, Timothy (2017), On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, New York: Crown, →ISBN, page 18: For more quotations using this term, see Citations:anticipatory obedience. === See also === 忖度 (sontaku, literally “[a]/[to] surmise, guess, conjecture”)