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expectancy - 9 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | expectancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation |
| Synonyms: | assumption, assurance, belief, calculation, confidence, conjecture, expectation, hope, likelihood, outlook, prediction, presentation, presentiment, presumption, probability, prospect, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspense, trust, view, looking forward, waiting |
| Main Entry: | expectation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, anticipation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, assumption, assurance, calculation, chance, confidence, conjecture, design, expectancy, fear, forecast, hope, intention, likelihood, motive, notion, outlook, possibility, prediction, presumption, probability, promise, prospect, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspense, trust, view, looking forward |
| Main Entry: | hope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | longing; dream |
| Synonyms: | Utopia, achievement, ambition, anticipation, aspiration, assumption, belief, bright side, buoyancy, castles in air, concern, confidence, daydream, dependence, desire, endurance, expectancy, expectation, faith, fancy, fool's paradise, fortune, gain, goal, greedy glutton, hopefulness, light at end of tunnel, optimism, pipe dream*, promise, promised land*, prospect, reliance, reverie, reward, rosiness, sanguineness, security, stock, thing with feathers, wish |
| Antonyms: | despair, disbelief, discouragement, hopelessness, pessimism |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impatience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inability, unwillingness to wait |
| Synonyms: | agitation, anger, annoyance, anxiety, avidity, disquietude, eagerness, excitement, expectancy, haste, heat*, intolerance, irritability, nervousness, rashness, restlessness, suspense, uneasiness, vehemence, violence, ants in pants, edginess, fretfulness, hastiness, impetuosity, irritableness, quick temper, restiveness, shortness, snappiness |
| Antonyms: | control, ease, endurance, forbearance, patience, tolerance, willingness, waiting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | suspense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, apprehension, confusion, dilemma, doubt, eagerness, expectancy, expectation, hesitancy, hesitation, impatience, indecision, insecurity, tension, uncertainty, wavering, chiller, cliff-hanger, cloak and dagger, grabber, indecisiveness, irresolution, page-turner, perplexity, potboiler, thriller |
| Antonyms: | knowledge |
| Main Entry: | anticipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expectation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, awaiting, contemplation, expectancy, foresight, hope, impatience, joy, outlook, preconception, premonition, preoccupation, prescience, presentiment, promise, prospect, trust, foretaste, high hopes, looking forward |
| Antonyms: | amazement, astonishment, doubt, fear, sensation, surprise, wonder |
| Main Entry: | prospect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outlook for future |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, calculation, chance, contemplation, expectancy, expectation, forecast, future, hope, likelihood, odds, opening, plan, possibility, presumption, probability, promise, proposal, thought, in the cards, irons in the fire |
| Main Entry: | life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | existence, duration |
| Synonyms: | being, career, continuance, course, cycle, endurance, epoch, era, expectancy, extent, generation, history, length, life span, lifetime, longevity, orbit, period, pilgrimage, record, season, span, survival, time, days |
| Main Entry: | stress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical or mental pressure |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, alarm, albatross*, anxiety, burden, clutch, crunch, disquiet, disquietude, distention, draw, dread, expectancy, extension, fear, ferment, flutter, force, hardship, hassle, heat, impatience, intensity, misgiving, mistrust, nervousness, oppression, passion, pull, restlessness, spring, strain, stretch, tension, traction, trauma, trepidation, trial, urgency, worry, apprehensiveness, fearfulness, nervous tension, overextension, protraction, tautness, tenseness, tensity, tightness |
| Antonyms: | indifference, relaxation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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