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Expectant vs Expectancy - What's the difference?

expectant | expectancy |

As an adjective expectant

is marked by expectation.

As a noun expectancy is

expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something.

expectant

English

Adjective

(head)
  • marked by expectation
    • An expectant hush before the performance.
  • pregnant
    • An expectant mother.
  • (medicine, dated) Waiting for the efforts of nature, with little active treatment.

    • expectancy

    English

    Noun

    (expectancies)
  • expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something
    • (Milton)
  • the state of being expected
  • something expected or awaited
  • * Shakespeare
    • The expectancy and rose of the fair state.

    Synonyms

    * expectingness

    Derived terms

    * life expectancy