Expectation vs. Reality
Difference Between Expectation and Reality
Expectationnoun
The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
Realitynoun
The state of being actual or real.
The reality of the crash scene on TV dawned upon him only when he saw the victim was no actor but his friend.Expectationnoun
That which is expected or looked for.
Realitynoun
A real entity, event or other fact.
The ultimate reality of life is that it ends in death.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.
Realitynoun
The entirety of all that is real.
Expectationnoun
The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
Realitynoun
An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.
Expectationnoun
(statistics) The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
Realitynoun
(obsolete) Loyalty; devotion.
Expectationnoun
(colloquial statistics) The arithmetic mean.
Realitynoun
Realty; real estate.
Expectationnoun
The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.
Realitynoun
all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you;
his world was shatteredwe live in different worldsfor them demons were as much a part of reality as trees wereExpectationnoun
belief about (or mental picture of) the future
Realitynoun
the state of being actual or real;
the reality of his situation slowly dawned on himExpectationnoun
wishing with confidence of fulfillment
Realitynoun
the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be;
businessmen have to face harsh realitiesExpectationnoun
the feeling that something is about to happen
Realitynoun
the quality possessed by something that is real
Expectationnoun
the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values
