expectation vs wonder

expectation

noun
  • The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. 

  • The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. 

  • The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment. 

  • The arithmetic mean. 

  • The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. 

  • The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything good to come, especially of property or rank. 

  • That which is expected or looked for. 

wonder

noun
  • The sense or emotion which can be inspired by something curious or unknown; surprise; astonishment, often with awe or reverence. 

  • Something that causes amazement or awe; a marvel. 

  • A kind of donut; a cruller. 

  • Someone very talented at something, a genius. 

  • A mental pondering, a thought. 

  • Something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable. 

verb
  • To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel; often followed by at. 

  • To ponder; to feel doubt and curiosity; to query in the mind. 

How often have the words expectation and wonder occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )