Anticipation vs. Expectation: What's the Difference?
Anticipation and Expectation Definitions
Anticipation
The act of expecting or foreseeing something; expectation or presentiment
"None are happy but by the anticipation of change.
Expectation
The act of expecting.
Anticipation
An expectation
"His heart was light and his anticipations high" (Mark Twain).
Expectation
Eager anticipation
Eyes shining with expectation.
Anticipation
Action taken in order to prevent or counteract something
The police department's anticipation of unruly behavior after the championship game prevented mayhem.
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Expectation
The state of being expected.
Anticipation
The use or assignment of funds, especially from a trust fund, before they are legitimately available for use.
Expectation
Something expected
A result that did not live up to expectations.
Anticipation
(Music) Introduction on a weak beat of one note of a new chord before the previous chord is resolved.
Expectation
Expectations Prospects, especially of success or gain.
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Anticipation
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.
Expectation
The expected value of a random variable.
Anticipation
The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
He waited with great anticipation for Christmas to arrive.
He waited in anticipation of the arrival of Christmas.
Expectation
The mean of a random variable.
Anticipation
(finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
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Expectation
The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
Anticipation
(rhetoric) Prolepsis.
Expectation
That which is expected or looked for.
Anticipation
(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.
Expectation
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.
Anticipation
(obsolete) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
Expectation
The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
Anticipation
The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery.
Expectation
(statistics) The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
Anticipation
Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven.
The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just.
Expectation
(colloquial statistics) The arithmetic mean.
Anticipation
Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds.
Expectation
The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.
Anticipation
The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord.
Expectation
The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
My soul, wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is from him.
Anticipation
Pleasurable expectation
Expectation
That which is expected or looked for.
Why our great expectation should be calledThe seed of woman.
Anticipation
Something expected (as on the basis of a norm);
Each of them had their own anticipations
An indicator of expectancy in development
Expectation
The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to happen; prospect of anything good to come, esp. of property or rank.
His magnificent expectations made him, in the opinion of the world, the best match in Europe.
By all men's eyes a youth of expectation.
Anticipation
The act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
Expectation
The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. Expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the event.
Anticipation
Some early entity whose type or style anticipates a later one;
There were many anticipations of Darwinian theory
The hour glass was an anticipation of the clock
Expectation
The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.
Anticipation
Wishing with confidence of fulfillment
Expectation
Belief about (or mental picture of) the future
Expectation
Wishing with confidence of fulfillment
Expectation
The feeling that something is about to happen
Expectation
The sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values
