expectancy
noun
the quality or state of expecting; expectation; anticipatory belief or desire.
expectance
-
a variation of
expectancy.
Example Sentences
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“A stasis develops between expectance and realization,” he wrote of a piece in 1971.
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2020
It conveyed all the tension, expectance and suspense.
From Golf Digest ● Sep. 4, 2012
In all probability, too, this element of expectance has indirect as well as direct effects, and the indirect are not the least fruitful in results.
From The Trade Union Woman by Alice Henry
August heat cannot weaken nor flivvers stale Our first-night expectance when the new season opens.
From The Broadway Anthology by Edward L. Bernays
Sometimes the child stole back from the kitchen or the barn, and peeped in upon her with a roguish expectance which her gloomy stare defeated, and then it ran off again.
From Annie Kilburn : a Novel by William Dean Howells
