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expectation

noun
/ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/CA/ˌek.spekˈtæɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

From Middle French expectation, from Latin exspectātiō, from exspectō (“expect”). By surface analysis, expect + -ation. Displaced native Old English wēn.

  1. derived from exspectātiō
  2. borrowed from expectation

Definitions

  1. The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

  2. That which is expected or looked for.

    • I entered early adulthood with the same expectation: I would marry, and my husband would manage our money.

  3. The prospect of the future

    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.

    • Charles Penrhyn, for he was the object of Louisa's preference, had expectations—that term, so vague when those expectations depend upon others.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some…

      The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.

    2. The first moment

      The first moment; the expected value; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.

    3. The arithmetic mean.

    4. The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at expectation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at expectation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at expectation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA