Expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something. / The state of being expected. / (obsolete) Something expected or awaited.

Marked by expectation. / Pregnant. / (medicine, dated) Awaiting the effects of nature, with little active treatment.

A person who expects or awaits something.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expect

Of or pertaining to an expectation. / (canon law) Of or pertaining to the reversion of a benefice.

(canon law) The anticipatory grant of an ecclesiastical benefice, not vacant at the moment but which will become so, regularly, on the death of its present incumbent.

Able to be expected or anticipated; not unusual. / Able to be expected or considered due or required (of someone), reasonable to expect (someone to do, have, etc).

Alternative form of expectancy

plural of expectance

plural of expectative