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▸ noun: That which is expected or looked for.
▸ noun: The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything good to come, especially of property or rank.
▸ noun: The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
▸ noun: (statistics) The first moment; the expected value; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
▸ noun: (statistics, colloquial) The arithmetic mean.
▸ noun: (medicine, rare) The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.
Similar:
anticipation,
prospect,
outlook,
arithmetic mean,
expected value,
first moment,
expectance,
expectative,
assumption,
disappointment,
more...
Opposite:
Types:
optimism bias,
pessimism bias,
planning fallacy,
hindsight bias,
self-serving bias,
status quo bias,
more...
Phrases:
Adjectives:
reasonable,
general,
confident,
little,
mathematical,
anxious,
high,
public,
eager,
daily,
conditional
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