Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for expectancy
The synonym for expectancy recorded in this bank is anticipation, in the sense "something expected (as on the basis of a norm)". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for expectancy
- anticipationnoun, in the sense "something expected (as on the basis of a norm)"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for expectancy.
something expected (as on the basis of a norm)
An indicator of expectancy in development.
The true synonym
anticipation
Same sentence, swapped: An indicator of anticipation in development.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for expectancy in the sentence quoted.
- foretaste
- possibility
- promise
Where expectancy turns up in the game
expectancy is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play expectancy
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so expectancy reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from thinking and knowing at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. expectancy carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.