Expectancy

Quick meaning: Expectancy is a noun meaning Expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something.

Meaning

Expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something.

More Meanings

1. The state of being expected.
2. (law) Future interest as to possession or enjoyment
3. (statistics) expectation; expected value
4. (obsolete) Something expected or awaited.

Example Sentences

[T]he Dukes dissembled their feares, and dissolued their forces, and remained in expectancie what would ensue.

Six minutes later Clovis approached the supper-table, in the blessed expectancy of one who has dined sketchily and long ago.

[T]his is generally thought to repreſent the Vices of Nero, vvho […] did from the higheſt Expectancy become a ſtubborn and a fooliſh Tyrant.

O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown! / The courtier’s, scholar’s, soldier’s, eye, tongue, sword, / Th’ expectancy and rose of the fair state […]

Word Forms

• expectancies
• expectance

Synonyms for expectancy

Depending on context, synonyms include expectingness, anticipation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include anticipation, expectation, esperance, expected, anticipated, forecast.

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