The phrase "absence of expectation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to describe a situation or state where there are no anticipations or predictions about an outcome.
Example: "In the absence of expectation, she found herself more open to the possibilities that life had to offer."
Alternatives: "lack of anticipation" or "void of expectation".
The absence of expectations had been both empowering and liberating, although that could change — the Irish crept into the national rankings at No. 23 this week.
Ignorance corresponds instead to the absence of expectations towards what may happen next.
In the absence of any expectation of Heaven, people had begun behaving very badly.
What sets Twitter apart from social networking services such as Facebook is the absence of any expectation of reciprocity.
Of course, in the absence of an expectation that others will modify postings to listservs, any such modification would, assuming sufficient use and the lack of an applicable exemption, constitute an infringing derivative work.
The point here is not merely the earlier, empirical observation that the rational activity of the understanding does not generate an impulse in the absence of an expectation of pain or pleasure.
Our findings are derived in one-shot games, i.e., in the absence of any expectations of reciprocity.
Fulfilled predictions lead to neural suppression akin to repetition suppression, but it is currently unclear if such effects generalize to broader stimulus categories in the absence of exact expectations.
However, probably the biggest weakness was the absence of prior expectations based on observations, experiments or theory, resulting in a prevalence of less robust post-hoc explanations of observations.
Studio Ghibli consistently manages to conjure an unpredictable and fitful joy through its love and observance of the beauty of life, nature and kinship, flitting between realism and fantasy but with the absence of prejudicial adult expectation.
