Anticipation vs. Expectation

Anticipation vs. Expectation — Is There a Difference?
ADVERTISEMENT

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.

ADVERTISEMENT

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.

ADVERTISEMENT

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 development

Expectationnoun

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 clock

Expectationnoun

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