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Webster 1913 Edition
Optimism
1.
(Metaph.)
The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is such as to produce the highest good.
Webster 1828 Edition
Optimism
OP'TIMISM
,Noun.
The true and amiable philosophy of optimism.
A system of strict optimism may be the real system in both cases.
Definition 2024
optimism
optimism
English
Noun
optimism (usually uncountable, plural optimisms)
- a tendency to expect the best, or at least, a favourable outcome
- I love her youth, her beauty and above all her optimism that everything will turn out fine.
- 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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Translations
a tendency to expect the best
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the doctrine that this world is the best of all possible worlds
the belief that good will eventually triumph over evil