'Expectation' definitions:
Definition of 'expectation'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
Anticipating with confidence of fulfillment [syn: anticipation, expectation]
noun
The feeling that something is about to happen
noun
The sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values [syn: arithmetic mean, first moment, expectation, expected value]
Definition of 'Expectation'
From: GCIDE
- Expectation \Ex`pec*ta"tion\n. [L. expectio. exspectio: cf. F. expectation.]
- 1. The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. "In expectation of a guest." --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- My soul, wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is from him. --Ps. lxii. 5. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is expected or looked for. [1913 Webster]
- Why our great expectation should be called The seed of woman. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to happen; prospect of anything good to come, esp. of property or rank. [1913 Webster]
- His magnificent expectations made him, in the opinion of the world, the best match in Europe. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- By all men's eyes a youth of expectation. --Otway. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. Expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the event. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Med.) The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. [1913 Webster]
- Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age.
- Syn: Anticipation; confidence; trust. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'expectation'
From: Moby 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