Expectation vs. Reality

Expectationnoun

The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

Expectationnoun

That which is expected or looked for.

Expectationnoun

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.

Expectationnoun

The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.

Expectationnoun

(statistics) The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.

Expectationnoun

(colloquial statistics) The arithmetic mean.

Expectationnoun

The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

Expectationnoun

The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

Expectationnoun

That which is expected or looked for.

Expectationnoun

The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to happen; prospect of anything good to come, esp. of property or rank.

Expectationnoun

The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. Expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the event.

Expectationnoun

The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

Expectationnoun

belief about (or mental picture of) the future

Expectationnoun

wishing with confidence of fulfillment

Expectationnoun

the feeling that something is about to happen

Expectationnoun

the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values

Realitynoun

The state of being actual or real.

Realitynoun

A real entity, event or other fact.

Realitynoun

The entirety of all that is real.

Realitynoun

An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.

Realitynoun

(obsolete) Loyalty; devotion.

Realitynoun

Realty; real estate.

Realitynoun

The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.

Realitynoun

That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea.

Realitynoun

Loyalty; devotion.

Realitynoun

See 2d Realty, 2.

Realitynoun

all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you;

Realitynoun

the state of being actual or real;

Realitynoun

the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be;

Realitynoun

the quality possessed by something that is real

Realitynoun

the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them

Realitynoun

a thing that is actually experienced or seen, especially when this is unpleasant

Realitynoun

a thing that exists in fact, having previously only existed in one's mind

Realitynoun

the quality of being lifelike

Realitynoun

relating to reality TV

Realitynoun

the state or quality of having existence or substance

Realitynoun

existence that is absolute, self-sufficient, or objective, and not subject to human decisions or conventions.

Reality

Reality is the sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent within a system, as opposed to that which is only imaginary. The term is also used to refer to the ontological status of things, indicating their existence.