Expectancy and Fact

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Expectancy noun - The act or state of looking forward to some occurrence.

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Fact is an antonym for expectancy in anticipation topic.

Fact noun - The quality of being actual.

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Expectancy is an antonym for fact.

Nearby Words: factor, factual, factually

good	good expectancy	good fact
low	low expectancy	low fact
long	long expectancy	long fact
short	short expectancy	short fact
Other adjectives: actual, limited, canonical, different, several.

In fact, after a hundred years, no one born on the Moon has yet to die of old age, so they don't even know their own life expectancy.

Source: Older Than They Look / Literature

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