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English noun: expectation | |||
| 1. | expectation (cognition) belief about (or mental picture of) the future | ||
| Synonyms | outlook, prospect | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | belief | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | anticipation, apprehension, expectancy, foretaste, hope, misgiving, possibility, promise | ||
| 2. | expectation (state) anticipating with confidence of fulfillment | ||
| Synonyms | anticipation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | hopefulness | ||
| 3. | expectation (feeling) the feeling that something is about to happen | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | feeling | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | anticipation, expectancy | ||
| 4. | expectation (cognition) the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values | ||
| Synonyms | arithmetic mean, expected value, first moment | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | mean, mean value | ||
| Domain category | statistics | ||
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