expectation
nounHow many syllables in expectation?
There are 4 syllables in the word expectation.How to pronounce expectation:
Definition of expectation:
- expectation (noun):
- the act or state of expecting anticipation
- the state of expecting or of being expected
- belief about (or mental picture of) the future.
Synonyms for expectation:
anticipation
apprehension
arithmetic mean
assumption
assurance
belief
calculation
conjecture
contemplation
expectance
expectancy
expected value
first moment
forecast
foretaste
hope
likelihood
misgiving
outlook
possibility
presumption
presupposition
probability
projection
promise
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Antonyms for expectation:
despair
disbelief
distrust
distrustfulness
doubt
doubtfulness
dubiety
dubiousness
dubitation
fear
hopelessness
impossibility
incertitude
incredulity
lack of faith
misgivings
mistrust
mistrustfulness
question
reservations
scepticism
skepticism
suspicion
unbelief
uncertainness
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Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- sixty seven
- decametre
- rapidity
- indifferent
- contemplated
- solmization
- tarogato
- stenography
- anticipate
- segmentation
- interwishing
- anonymous
- attainable
- octameter
- hesitation
- derisively
- education
- diplopia
- tentatively
- concatenate
- choreograph
- responsable
- dystopia
- cantankerous
- advocacy
- symmetrical
- reciprocate
- budgerigar
- sciatica
- questionnaire
- feudalism
- depreciate
- audacity
- time-consuming
- unsuitable
- congenial
- accumulate
- proposition
- terrestrial
- unreachable
- impossibly
- transmittable
- misapprehend
- Sohalia
- susceptible
- elegantly
- creatinine
- respectively
- flabbergasted
- degradation
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