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expectancy


expectancy

noun

Definition of EXPECTANCY

the act or state of looking forward to some occurrence <that feeling of optimistic expectancy that fills theatergoers as they wait for the curtain to rise>
Related Words alarm (also alarum), apprehension, dread, foreboding, misgiving

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