Crossword-Solution: EXPECTATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Expectation | n. | The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. |
| Expectation | n. | That which is expected or looked for. |
| Expectation | n. | 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. |
| Expectation | n. | 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. |
| Expectation | n. | The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. |
We have 72 clues for the answer “EXPECTATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the act or state of expecting | 1 answer |
| natural course | 1 answer |
| THING expected | 1 answer |
| GROUND for expecting | 1 answer |
| BEING expected | 1 answer |
| good chance | 2 answers |
| Hope of success | 2 answers |
| expectancy | 3 answers |
| Awaiting | 5 answers |
| rosy picture | 8 answers |
| reliance | 13 answers |
| pipe dream | 13 answers |
| plausibility | 14 answers |
| Likelihood | 17 answers |
| Wishful thinking? | 22 answers |
| Probability | 24 answers |
| presumption | 25 answers |
| future state | 33 answers |
| Optimism | 34 answers |
| Prognostication | 35 answers |
| Leeway | 37 answers |
| flexibility | 38 answers |
| Aspiration | 38 answers |
| prophecy | 39 answers |
| Trust | 39 answers |
| fool's paradise | 44 answers |
| Life after death? | 45 answers |
| possibility | 45 answers |
| anticipation | 46 answers |
| Option | 46 answers |
| hopefulness | 47 answers |
| Risk | 47 answers |
| verisimilitude | 48 answers |
| Preference | 50 answers |
| assumption | 51 answers |
| Selection ___ | 52 answers |
| Omen | 53 answers |
| Augury | 54 answers |
| Perspective | 54 answers |
| Latitude | 56 answers |
| Vision | 56 answers |
| Alternative | 56 answers |
| prediction | 57 answers |
| Confidence | 58 answers |
| forecast | 59 answers |
| DECISION ___ | 59 answers |
| prospect | 62 answers |
| Semblance | 65 answers |
| Ambition | 65 answers |
| Coming | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EXPECTATION (5)
Back to the Thicket slunk The guiltie Serpent, and well might, for _Eve_ Intent now wholly on her taste, naught else Regarded, such delight till then, as seemd, In Fruit she never tasted, whether true Or fansied so, through expectation high Of knowledg, nor was God-head from her thought.
The Buffoon appeared alone upon the platform, without any apparatus or confederates, and the very sense of expectation caused an intense silence.
Where the issue of an interview is as likely to be a vast change for the worse as for the better, any initial difference from expectation causes nipping sensations of failure.
The signal rockets burst and rained their sparks through the night and vanished, and the spirit of all those watching batteries rose to a tense expectation.
The practice of raiding the dumpsters behind buildings where producers and/or consumers of high-tech equipment are located, with the expectation (usually justified) of finding discarded but still-valuable equipment to be nursed back to health in some hacker's den.
Quotes with EXPECTATION (3)
People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that responsibility.
On the surface, I was calm: in secret, without really admitting it, I was waiting for something. Her return? How could I have been waiting for that? We all know that we are material creatures, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and not even the power of all our feelings combined can defeat those laws. All we can do is detest them. The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and…
Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.