expectedness

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If the occurrence, when it comes, gives us the feeling of expectedness, and if the expectation, beforehand, enabled us to act in a way which proves appropriate to the occurrence, that must be held to constitute the maximum of verification.

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  1. ordinariness as a consequence of being expected and not surprising
  2. the state of being that is commonly observed

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  • Carrie Underwood who was a vision of totally expectedness in a floral strapless number by Zuhair Murad. —  Faded Youth Blog
  • Even then, his dismissal had a certain expectedness about it to just about sum up the occasion.
  • If the occurrence, when it comes, gives us the feeling of expectedness, and if the expectation, beforehand, enabled us to act in a way which proves appropriate to the occurrence, that must be held to constitute the maximum of verification. —  The Analysis of Mind
  • New guests, with the casual expectedness of the Big House, had drifted in -- a lawyer, by name —  The Little Lady of the Big House
  • We have first an expectation, then a sensation with the feeling of expectedness related to memory of the expectation. —  The Analysis of Mind
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