expectancy
Meaning of expectancy
noun
- the state of thinking or hoping that something, especially something good, will happen.
they waited with an air of expectancy
our expectancies about the future
early 17th century: from Latin exspectantia, from exspectare ‘look out for’ (see expect).
Information about expectancy
- It is a name.
- The plural form of expectancy is: expectancies.
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Hyphenation of expectancy
ex-pectancy
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 letters.
- expectancy is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
expectancy synonyms
Meaning anticipation:
Meaning a strong belief that something will happen or be the case:
Meaning enthusiasm to do or to have something; keenness:
Meaning grounds for believing that something good may happen:
Meaning a feeling of great enthusiasm and eagerness:
Meaning a quality in a work of fiction that arouses excited expectation or uncertainty about what may happen:
Translation of expectancy
- French: attente
- Spanish: esperanza
- Italian: attesa, aspettativa
- German: Erwartung
Words that rhyme with expectancy
absorbancy, perturbancy, titubancy, applicancy, impeccancy, insignificancy, mendicancy, nonmendicancy, nonsignificancy, nonvacancy, peccancy, presignificancy, secancy, significancy, supplicancy, unsignificancy, vacancy, Madancy, abundancy, accordancy, appendancy, ascendancy, attendancy, concordancy, dancy, dependancy, disappendancy, discordancy, exundancy, inaccordancy, intendancy, mordancy, nonascendancy, nondependancy, reascendancy, redundancy, regardancy, superabundancy, trepidancy, verdancy, faineancy, intransigeancy, miscreancy, recreancy, sergeancy, serjeancy, Fancy, befancy, bouffancy, fancy
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