expectation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
medicine
sciences
statistics
Etymology: From Middle French expectation, from Latin exspectātiō, from exspectō (“expect”). By surface analysis, expect + -ation. Displaced native Old English wēn.
Inflected forms:
form: expectations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: expection
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
gloss: That which is expected or looked for.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And so it had always pleased M. Stutz to expect great things from the dark young man whom he had first seen in his early twenties ; and his expectations had waxed rather than waned on hearing the faint bruit of the love of Ivor and Virginia—for Virginia, M. Stutz thought, would bring fineness to a point in a man like Ivor Marlay,[…].
Thus the B.R. diesel fleet today is composed of a rather assorted collection of designs. Some have proved to be remarkably satisfactory in service; others have so far not come up to expectations and I suppose it is doubtful whether any more orders for some types will be forthcoming.
I entered early adulthood with the same expectation: I would marry, and my husband would manage our money.
gloss: That which is expected or looked for.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He struggled with his parents' expectations.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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?"
Charles Penrhyn, for he was the object of Louisa's preference, had expectations—that term, so vague when those expectations depend upon others.
gloss: The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The first moment; the expected value; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The arithmetic mean.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
gloss: The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
Related words: expect
expectant
expected
Wikipedia:Expected value
Derived words: concession-counter-expectation
contraexpectation
expectational
expectations game
expectations hypothesis
Expectation Sunday
Expectation Week
inexpectation
misexpectation
nonexpectation
overexpectation
preexpectation
racism of low expectations
sexpectation
soft bigotry of low expectations
unexpectation
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: ակնկալիք
roman: aknkalikʻ
lang: Bulgarian
word: надежда
roman: nadežda
lang: Bulgarian
word: вероятност
roman: verojatnost
lang: Catalan
word: expectativa
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 期望
roman: qīwàng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 期待
roman: qīdài
lang: Czech
word: očekávání
lang: Dutch
word: verwachting
lang: Estonian
word: ootus
lang: Finnish
word: odotus
lang: French
word: attente
lang: German
word: Erwartung
lang: Greek
word: προσδοκία
roman: prosdokía
lang: Hindi
word: आकांक्षा
roman: ākāṅkṣā
lang: Indonesian
word: harapan
lang: Italian
word: attese
lang: Italian
word: aspettativa
lang: Japanese
word: 希望
roman: kibō
lang: Japanese
word: 期待
roman: kitai
lang: Japanese
word: 心待ち
roman: kokoromachi
lang: Malay
word: jangkaan
lang: Māori
word: kawatau
lang: Polish
word: oczekiwanie
lang: Portuguese
word: expectativa
lang: Romanian
word: expectativă
lang: Romanian
word: anticipație
lang: Romanian
word: așteptat
lang: Russian
word: ожида́ние
roman: ožidánije
lang: Russian
word: наде́жда
roman: nadéžda
lang: Russian
word: ча́яние
roman: čájanije
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: fiughair
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: dùil
lang: Spanish
word: expectativa
lang: Swahili
word: tarajio
lang: Swedish
word: förväntning
lang: Swedish
word: förväntan
lang: Ukrainian
word: наді́я
roman: nadíja