expectation.
The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
Meaning & usage
The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
That which is expected or looked for.
That which is expected or looked for. An implicit obligation or duty held by another in someone's view.
He struggled with his parents' expectations.
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.
The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
The first moment; the expected value; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
The arithmetic mean.
The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.
Where this word comes from
From Middle French expectation, from Latin exspectātiō, from exspectō (“expect”). By surface analysis, expect + -ation. Displaced native Old English wēn.
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