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AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Anticipation VS expectation

What is the difference between anticipation and expectation?
  

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Anticipation conveys being on pins and needles and is a feeling of excitement about something pleasant or exciting that you know is going to happen while expectation is more of silent waiting. In most cases they are synonymous, though.

  • Anticipation conveys being on pins and needles and is a feeling of excitement about something pleasant or exciting that you know is going to happen while expectation is more of silent waiting.
  • In most cases they are synonymous, though.
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Anticipation conveys being on pins and needles and is a feeling of excitement about something pleasant or exciting that you know is going to happen while expectation is more of silent waiting. In most cases they are synonymous, though.
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"Expectation" is also used to mean something specific that a person expects from a given situation. For instance, you might say that a marriage can have problems if the husband and wife have different expectations.
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anticipation is seeing something that will happen in future,expectation is a hope.
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I think you should say it the other way around!
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Anticipation is the hoped for outcome of an imagined event or action

Expectation is the entitled certainty of an imagined event or action

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