expectation

Plural: expectations

Noun

• belief about (or mental picture of) the future
• anticipating with confidence of fulfillment
• the feeling that something is about to happen
• the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values
• The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
• That which is expected or looked for.
• 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.

Synonyms

anticipation, arithmetic mean, expected value, first moment, outlook, prospect

Related Words

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