Definition of Overexpectation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overexpectation

overexercises
overexercising
overexert
overexert oneself
overexerted
overexerting
overexertion
overexertions
overexerts
overexpand
overexpanded
overexpanding
overexpands
overexpansion
overexpansions
overexpectation (current term)
overexplain
overexplained
overexplaining
overexplains
overexplanatory
overexplicit
overexploit
overexploitation
overexploited
overexploiting
overexploits
overexpose
overexposed
overexposes

Literary usage of Overexpectation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The World We Live in by George Stuart Fullerton (1912)
"... upon the lessons to be learned from the history of philosophy are aware, as was Pepys, that disappointment may follow on the heels of "overexpectation. ..."

2. The World We Live in by George Stuart Fullerton (1912)
"... upon the lessons to be learned from the history of philosophy are aware, as was Pepys, that disappointment may follow on the heels of "overexpectation. ..."

3. Principles of Education Applied to Practice by Wallace Franklin Jones (1911)
"The teacher is therefore cautioned against overexpectation from any isolated treatment of method; for there is but little in the way of forms of procedure ..."

4. Racial and Ethnic Tensions in American Communities: Poverty, Inequality and edited by Mary Frances Berry (2000)
"I believe that Rebuild LA suffered from overexpectation, partly because politicians did not say exactly what they would do in the rebuilding of Los Angeles, ..."

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