Associations to the word «Expectancy»

Wiktionary

EXPECTANCY, noun. Expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something
EXPECTANCY, noun. The state of being expected
EXPECTANCY, noun. Something expected or awaited

Dictionary definition

EXPECTANCY, noun. An expectation.
EXPECTANCY, noun. Something expected (as on the basis of a norm); "each of them had their own anticipations"; "an indicator of expectancy in development".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne