expectance

  • 31prospect — I (outlook) noun ambition, anticipation, assurance, calculation, certainty, chance, coming events, confidence, contemplation, destiny, expectance, expectancy, expectation, fair chance, faith, fate, forecast, fortune, futurity, good chance, hope,… …

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  • 32expectation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Expectancy Nouns 1. expectation, expectancy, anticipation, reckoning, calculation, foresight, prediction, imminence, contingency; contemplation, lookout, prospect, outlook, perspective, horizon. See… …

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  • 33anticipation — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Expectation] Syn. expectancy, expectation, looking forward, outlook, trust, confident expectation, eager expectation, contemplation, promise, prospect, awaiting, joy, impatience, preoccupation, hope, high hopes. Ant. fear*,… …

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  • 34expectancy — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. hope, prospect, likelihood; see anticipation 1 , outlook 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The condition of looking forward to something, especially with eagerness: anticipation, expectance, expectation. See SURPRISE. 2 …

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  • 35Expectation — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Expectation >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 expectation expectation expectance expectancy Sgm: N 1 anticipation anticipation reckoning calculation Sgm: N 1 foresight foresight &c. 510 GRP: N 2 …

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  • 36anticipation — n. 1. Expectation, expectance, contemplation, prospect, hope, trust. See also abeyance. 2. Foretaste, prelibation, antepast, presentiment, forestalling, foreseeing, foresight, prescience, prevision, forethought, forecast, preconception,… …

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  • 37calculation — n. 1. Computation, reckoning. 2. Expectation, expectance, anticipation, contemplation, prospect. 3. Forethought, foresight, circumspection, wariness, caution, cautiousness, discretion, deliberation, prudence …

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  • 38expectancy — n. 1. Expectation, expectance. 2. (Law.) Abeyance, prospect …

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  • 39expectation — n. 1. Anticipation, prospect, expectance, expectancy. 2. Reliance, confidence, assurance, presumption …

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  • 40prospect — n. 1. View, survey, display, sight, scene, field, landscape, show, spectacle, vision, vista, perspective. 2. Landscape, scenery, picture. 3. Expectation, anticipation, contemplation, calculation, expectance, foreseeing, promise, foresight,… …

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