optimism
IPA: ˈɑptʌmɪzʌm
noun
- a tendency to expect the best, or at least, a favourable outcome
- the doctrine that this world is the best of all possible worlds
- the belief that good will eventually triumph over evil
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Examples of "optimism" in Sentences
- Reagan optimism is code for status quo Republican agenda.
- I walk away in awe wondering if this, perhaps, is what they call the optimism of youth.
- You may not agree with their philosophy for creating a better future for America, but the optimism is the same.
- Underpinning the optimism is a belief that the sovereign-debt concerns that rattled markets earlier in the year have become less threatening.
- Today, a scant two years later, as chaos erupts in that great expanse of geography that once was the Soviet Union, our optimism is at home with a severe autumn cold.
- The term optimism as thus extended would also include "meliorism", a word first used in print by Sully to designate the theory of those who hold that things are, indeed, bad, but that they can be better, and that it is in our power to increase the happiness and welfare of mankind.
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