Definition for Expectation:

• 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.

Synonyms for Expectation:

• n.

  •
  • commitment,
  • philosophy,
  • ideal,
  • concept,
  • theory,
  • principle,
  • thought.
  •anticipation (noun)
  • anticipation.
  •arithmetic mean (noun)
  • sample mean,
  • expected value,
  • first moment,
  • simple average.
  •assumption (noun)
  • hypo thesis,
  • pre mises,
  • pre-mise,
  • sur-mise,
  • shot dark,
  • sur mise,
  • pre-mises,
  • hypo-thesis,
  • acceptings,
  • shot in dark,
  • sur mises,
  • assumings,
  • sur-mises,
  • shot the dark,
  • sneaking suspicions,
  • pre mise.
  •belief (noun)
  • thesis,
  • notion.
  •cognition (noun)
  • expectation.
  •dependence/dependency (noun)
  • de pendency,
  • inter dependence,
  • trustworthinesses,
  • de-pendency,
  • inter-dependence,
  • responsiblenesses,
  • inter-dependences,
  • trustinesses,
  • inter dependences,
  • de-pendencies,
  • de pendencies.
  •desire (noun)
  • Ardency,
  • amorousness,
  • acquisitiveness,
  • yearning,
  • craving,
  • eagerness,
  • itch,
  • passion,
  • longing,
  • lust,
  • urge,
  • wish,
  • need,
  • thirst,
  • desire,
  • greed,
  • fondness,
  • hunger,
  • covetousness.
  •destiny (noun)
  • course event,
  • after-lives,
  • foreordinations,
  • way the ball bounce,
  • pre-destinations,
  • de-signs,
  • fore ordination,
  • de sign,
  • pre destination,
  • course of event,
  • divine decrees,
  • predeterminations,
  • de signs,
  • way ball bounces,
  • pre-determination,
  • in tents,
  • pre determinations,
  • wheel fortune,
  • fore ordinations,
  • moirais,
  • de-sign,
  • After-life,
  • pre determination,
  • way the cookie crumble,
  • pre destinations,
  • pre-determinations,
  • in tent,
  • in-tents,
  • pre-destination,
  • fore-ordinations,
  • what is writtens,
  • after lives,
  • the star,
  • way ball bounce,
  • course events,
  • world come,
  • way cookie crumble.
  •expectancy (noun)
  • pre dictions,
  • pre sentiment,
  • pre sentiments,
  • pre-sentiments,
  • pre-diction,
  • pre-sentiment,
  • looking forwards,
  • pre diction,
  • pre-dictions.
  •fortune (noun)
  • fifty-fifties,
  • lucked outs,
  • roll of dice,
  • run luck,
  • fifty fifties,
  • lucked inti,
  • lucky hits,
  • roll dice,
  • good breaks,
  • fiftyfifties,
  • fifty fifty,
  • streak luck,
  • lucked in to,
  • fiftyfifty.
  •future (noun)
  • offing,
  • tomorrows,
  • life to come,
  • to be,
  • futurity,
  • aftertime,
  • morrows,
  • after time,
  • by and by,
  • tomorrow,
  • morrow,
  • subsequent time,
  • millennia,
  • Futurities.
  •hope (noun)
  • faith,
  • aspiration,
  • confidence,
  • sureness.
  •hunch (noun)
  • feeling in ones bone,
  • pre-apprehensions,
  • pre-notation,
  • feeling in one bone,
  • fore-bodings,
  • pre apprehension,
  • fore warnings,
  • pre notice,
  • pre cognition,
  • pre monitions,
  • fore-casts,
  • presagements,
  • feeling in one's bone,
  • pre-notice,
  • augurations,
  • pre cognitions,
  • pre-cognitions,
  • fore-knowledge,
  • fore-warnings,
  • pre-apprehension,
  • pre science,
  • bodings,
  • pre-science,
  • fore bodings,
  • pre-sages,
  • feeling one bone,
  • feeling bone,
  • preapprehensions,
  • pre sciences,
  • fore wisdoms,
  • prenotations,
  • pre-sciences,
  • fore boding,
  • pre notices,
  • pre-sage,
  • pre monition,
  • pre notation,
  • pre-notations,
  • fore casts,
  • mis giving,
  • pre apprehensions,
  • fore-wisdom,
  • fore-warning,
  • feeling one's bone,
  • feeling ones bone,
  • pre sages,
  • fore-cast,
  • fore-knowledges,
  • fore cast,
  • pre notations,
  • pre-monition,
  • mis-giving,
  • feeling in bone,
  • fore wisdom,
  • fore-wisdoms,
  • pre-cognition,
  • pre sage,
  • fore knowledge,
  • ominations,
  • pre-notices,
  • fore knowledges,
  • forewisdoms,
  • fore-boding.
  •intention (noun)
  • will,
  • proposal,
  • goal,
  • ambition,
  • prospectus,
  • intention,
  • idea,
  • plan,
  • forethought,
  • consideration,
  • policy,
  • scenario,
  • procedure,
  • approach,
  • object,
  • endeavor,
  • scheme,
  • strategy,
  • schedule,
  • choice,
  • agenda,
  • calculation.
  •optimism (noun)
  • good cheers,
  • looking bright side,
  • positivisms,
  • rosecolored glasses,
  • rose colored glasses.
  •outlook (noun)
  • out-look,
  • out look,
  • out looks,
  • law averages,
  • out-looks,
  • normal courses.
  •plan (noun)
  • blueprint,
  • contrivance,
  • proposition,
  • conception,
  • design,
  • plot,
  • invention,
  • premeditation,
  • coordination,
  • chart,
  • arrangement.
  •preparation (noun)
  • incubation,
  • substructures,
  • incubations,
  • gestation,
  • schoolwork,
  • substructure,
  • build-up,
  • putting in order,
  • build-ups,
  • homework,
  • getting ready,
  • lead time,
  • making ready,
  • tryout,
  • homeworks.
  •presupposition (noun)
  • pre-supposition,
  • pre supposition,
  • pre suppositions,
  • pre-suppositions.
  •probability (noun)
  • likeliness,
  • toss up,
  • practicability,
  • practicabilities,
  • reasonableness,
  • outside chance,
  • conceivability,
  • snowball's chance,
  • tossup.
  •prognosis (noun)
  • previsions,
  • prevision.
  •prospect (noun)
  • irons in fire,
  • in the cards.
  •purpose (noun)
  • pre-meditation,
  • where ones headeds,
  • ulterior motives,
  • pre meditations,
  • whatfors,
  • where one headeds,
  • pro position,
  • re-solves,
  • re solves,
  • pre meditation,
  • why wherefore,
  • why and wherefores,
  • why wherefores,
  • where one headed,
  • where one's headeds,
  • big ideas,
  • whole ideas,
  • de-termination,
  • re solve,
  • pre-meditations,
  • where headed,
  • whyfors,
  • re-solve,
  • pro-positions,
  • de termination,
  • where headeds,
  • de-terminations,
  • pro positions,
  • where ones headed,
  • de terminations.
  •suspense (noun)
  • cloak and daggers,
  • cloak dagger,
  • cloak daggers,
  • pageturner,
  • un certainties,
  • cliff-hangers,
  • page turners,
  • in-decisivenesses,
  • in decisiveness,
  • in-decisions,
  • un-certainties,
  • page turner,
  • in decisivenesses,
  • in decision,
  • pageturners,
  • un-certainty,
  • in-securities,
  • page-turners,
  • in-security,
  • cliff hanger,
  • un certainty,
  • cliff hangers,
  • in decisions,
  • in securities,
  • in-decisiveness,
  • in-decision.
  •trust (noun)
  • entrustment,
  • entrustments.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • pipe dream.
  •
  • light at the end of the tunnel,
  • vision,
  • a ray of light/comfort,
  • future,
  • pious hope,
  • prayer.

Paraphrases for Expectation:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    belief.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    promise.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    inks.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Waits, assumption, presumption, Hoped, forecasting, confidence, speculation, probability, perception, conviction, hypothesis, longing, likelihood, notion, chance, projected, meantime, idea, wish, satisfaction, anxiety, intention, predictability, hopeful, prevision, optimism, estimation, contemplation, Predicting, ambition, estimate.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    expectancy, waiting.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    prediction, aspiration, projection, excitement, desire, expectancy, waiting.

Antonyms for Expectation:

• n.

  • belief, anticipation
    distrust, hopelessness, unlikelihood, fact, knowledge, reality, proof, truth, impossibility, doubt, disbelief.
  • Other antonyms:
    consummation, wonder, despair, realization, dread, fear, astonishment, surprise, enjoyment.

Expectation Sentence Examples:

• And so, not without hope, yet with no expectation of a miracle, I give the Jews a Christ they can now accept, the Christians a Christ they have forgotten.

• Lady Florimel found her expectation of amusement not likely to be disappointed.

Homophones for Expectation:

• exposition, equivocation.

Hypernym for Expectation:

• n.

  • cognition
    apprehension, promise, foretaste, hope, anticipation, misgiving, possibility, expectancy.
  • feeling
    expectancy, anticipation.

Hyponym for Expectation:

• n.

  • cognition
    belief.
  • feeling
    feeling.
  • state
    hopefulness.