Anticipation vs. Expectation
Difference Between Anticipation and Expectation
Anticipationnoun
The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
Often the anticipation of a shot is worse than the pain of the stick.Expectationnoun
The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
Anticipationnoun
The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
He waited with great anticipation for Christmas to arrive.Expectationnoun
That which is expected or looked for.
Anticipationnoun
(finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
Expectationnoun
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.
Anticipationnoun
(rhetoric) Prolepsis.
Expectationnoun
The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
Anticipationnoun
(music) A non-harmonic tone that is lower or higher than a note in the previous chord and a unison to a note in the next chord.
Expectationnoun
(statistics) The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
Anticipationnoun
(obsolete) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
Expectationnoun
(colloquial statistics) The arithmetic mean.
Anticipationnoun
pleasurable expectation
Expectationnoun
The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.
Anticipationnoun
something expected (as on the basis of a norm);
each of them had their own anticipationsan indicator of expectancy in developmentExpectationnoun
belief about (or mental picture of) the future
Anticipationnoun
the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
Expectationnoun
wishing with confidence of fulfillment
Anticipationnoun
some early entity whose type or style anticipates a later one;
there were many anticipations of Darwinian theorythe hour glass was an anticipation of the clockExpectationnoun
the feeling that something is about to happen
Anticipationnoun
wishing with confidence of fulfillment
Expectationnoun
the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values
