espérance — meaning in English
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English meaning
- expectancy noun A feeling of anticipation about something that is likely to happen.
- hope verb To want something to happen and believe it might.
Senses
espérance is used for these senses in English:
- Hope (rare) A en given name.
- expectancy Expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something.
- expected value (probability theory) The weighted average of outcome values, using probability as the weighting function.
expectancy — full definition
- noun A feeling of anticipation about something that is likely to happen.
- noun A statistical figure showing how long or how much of something is likely, on average.
hope — full definition
- verb To want something to happen and believe it might.
- noun A feeling of trust or expectation that something good will happen.