Definitions
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- noun The state or quality of being
expected .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being that is commonly observed
- noun ordinariness as a consequence of being expected and not surprising
Etymologies
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Examples
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And for me, for years I've always tried to steer my perspective to that of preparedness instead of expectedness.
John Koch: "Beauty in Ugliness" - A Q&A With Blue Valentine Director Derek Cianfrance John Koch 2010
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Also, for a genre like epic fantasy in which the suspense and excitement of the quest are supposed to be key, I think much of the appeal draws from their opposites: security and expectedness.
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 8: The Path of Daggers (1998) Adam Roberts 2010
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And for me, for years I've always tried to steer my perspective to that of preparedness instead of expectedness.
John Koch: "Beauty in Ugliness" - A Q&A With Blue Valentine Director Derek Cianfrance John Koch 2010
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OUDART: There's an expectedness with the brand, I think.
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We have first an expectation, then a sensation with the feeling of expectedness related to memory of the expectation.
The Analysis of Mind Bertrand Russell 1921
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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.
The Analysis of Mind Bertrand Russell 1921
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New guests, with the casual expectedness of the Big House, had drifted in -- a lawyer, by name
The Little Lady of the Big House Jack London 1896
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Louise became less defiant in her joy then, or else the effect of it was lost in Mrs. Hilary's assumption of an entire expectedness in the event.
The Story of a Play A Novel William Dean Howells 1878
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This person will medical review individual case safety reports clinical and spontaneous, including coding, seriousness, expectedness and causality assessment for an assigned therapeutic area.
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Provide medical review of individual case safety reports, including coding, expectedness and causality assessment.
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