Synonyms of the word

anticipation

• n. The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper…
• n. The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
• n. (finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
• n. (rhetoric) Prolepsis.
• n. (music) A non-harmonic tone that is lower or higher than a note in the previous chord and a unison to…
• n. (obsolete) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.

expectancy

• n. expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something.
• n. the state of being expected.
• n. something expected or awaited.

expectation

• n. The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
• n. That which is expected or looked for.
• n. The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything…
• n. The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
• n. (statistics) The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions…
• n. (colloquial statistics) The arithmetic mean.
• n. (medicine, rare) The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

hopefulness

• n. The property of being hopeful.

outlook

• n. A place from which something can be viewed.
• n. The view from such a place.
• n. An attitude or point of view.
• n. Expectation for the future.
• v. (transitive) To face down; to outstare.
• v. To inspect throughly; to select.

prediction

• n. A statement of what will happen in the future.
• n. A probability estimation based on statistical methods.

prevision

• n. Advance knowledge; foresight.
• n. A prediction.
• v. To predict or envision the future.

prospect

• n. The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
• n. A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
• n. A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
• n. Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
• n. The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
• n. The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
• n. A hope; a hopeful.
• n. (sports) Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a…
• n. (music) The façade of an organ.
• v. (intransitive) To search, as for gold.
• v. (geology, mining) To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.

reasoning

• n. Action of the verb to reason.
• n. The deduction of inferences or interpretations from premises; abstract thought; ratiocination.
• n. A Rastafari meeting held for the purposes of chanting, prayer and discussion.
• v. present participle of reason.