- expectation, outlook, prospect - belief about (or mental picture of) the future
--1 is a kind of belief
--1 has particulars:promise, hope; foretaste; possibility; anticipation, expectancy; apprehension, misgiving Derived forms: verb expect2, verb expect4, verb expect1 - anticipation, expectation - wishing with confidence of fulfillment
--2 is a kind of hopefulness
Derived forms: verb expect3, verb expect6 - expectation - the feeling that something is about to happen
--3 is a kind of feeling
--3 has particulars: anticipation, expectancyDerived forms: verb expect1, verb expect5 - arithmetic mean, first moment, expectation, expected value - the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values
--4 is a kind of mean, mean value