espérances

Definitions of espérances
  1. noun
    belief about (or mental picture of) the future
    synonyms: perspective
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    types:
    avant-goût
    an early limited awareness of something yet to occur
    expectative
    something expected (as on the basis of a norm)
    espérance de vie
    an expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities
    type of:
    croyance
    any cognitive content held as true
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