"expectation" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

Belief about (or mental picture of) the future (synset 105953807)
is a type of: belief - any cognitive content held as true
subtypes:
- hope, promise - grounds for feeling hopeful about the future
- foretaste - an early limited awareness of something yet to occur
- possibility - a future prospect or potential
- anticipation, expectancy - something expected (as on the basis of a norm)
- apprehension, misgiving - painful expectation
same as: outlook, prospect
Anticipating with confidence of fulfillment (synset 114509706)
is a type of: hopefulness - full of hope

same as: anticipation
The feeling that something is about to happen (synset 107526162)
is a type of: feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional states

subtypes: anticipation, expectancy - an expectation
The sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values (synset 106033638)
referred to in: statistics - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters

is a type of: mean, mean value - an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n

same as: arithmetic mean, expected value, first moment