Expectation

Noun

 * 1) The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
 * 2) That which is expected or looked for.
 * 3) The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything good to come, especially of property or rank.
 * 4) * 1816:, Emma, Volume 1 Chapter 7
 * Emma was not sorry to be pressed. She read, and was surprized. The style of the letter was much above her expectation. There were not merely no grammatical errors, but as a composition it would not have disgraced a gentleman; the language, though plain, was strong and unaffected, and the sentiments it conveyed very much to the credit of the writer. It was short, but expressed good sense, warm attachment, liberality, propriety, even delicacy of feeling. She paused over it, while Harriet stood anxiously watching for her opinion, with a "Well, well," and was at last forced to add, "Is it a good letter? or is it too short?"
 * 1) The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
 * 2)  The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
 * 3)  the arithmetic mean
 * 4)   The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

Synonyms

 * arithmetic mean; average

Related terms

 * expect
 * expectant
 * expected

Adjectives for Expectation
blissful; confident; sanguine; harrowing; exorbitant; pecuniary; ardent; benevolent; fiorid; vain;  reasonable;  appreciative; mystic; fondest; remote; rational; continual; erroneous; future; protracted; exaggerated; impossible; evident; sure; tremulous; delightful;  brilliant;   ulterior;   anxious; hopeful; hourly; indefinite; visionary; commensurate; extravagant; distant.

Verbs for Expectation
await with—; blast—; confirm—; darken —; encourage—; excite—s; fall short of—; fulfill—; gamble in—; glow with—; prolong —; quiver with—; shine in—; thwart—; torment with—; warrant—; whirl in—; —becomes; —fails; —grows; —perishes; — shrinks.

Thesaurus
aftertime, afteryears, anticipation, apprehension, apprehensiveness, aptitude, aspiration, assumption, assurance, assured faith, awelessness, belief, by-and-by, calmness, chance, cheerful expectation, composure, confidence, conjecture, conviction, cool, coolness, course ahead, crystal ball, demand, dependence, design, desire, determinism, distant future, doomed hope, dueness, entitledness, entitlement, eventuality, expectancy, fair expectation, fair prospect, faith, favorable prospect, fervent hope, foresight, forward look, future, future tense, futurism, futurity, good chance, good cheer, good hope, great expectations, guess, hereafter, high hopes, hope, hopeful prognosis, hopefulness, hopes, hoping, hoping against hope, immediate future, immediate prospect, imminence, inexcitability, insistence, intention, justice, justifiable expectation, liability, likelihood, likeliness, meritedness, motive, near future, nodding acceptance, nonamazedness, nonamazement, nonastonishment, nonmarveling, nonwonder, nonwondering, notion, odds, offing, outlook, posteriority, prayerful hope, prediction, presumption, presumptive evidence, probabilism, probability, project, promise, prophecy, prospect, prospects, reasonable ground, reasonable hope, reliance, requirement, sanguine expectation, security, supposition, surmise, suspense, tendency, the future, the morrow, the sweet by-and-by, time ahead, time just ahead, time to come, tomorrow, trust, unamazedness, unamazement, unastonishment, unimpressibleness, unsurprise, unsurprisedness, verisimilitude, want, watchfulness, well-grounded hope, wish, wonderlessness

Etymology
From expectationem:, from expectare:.

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