Usually means: Optimism about future events, outcomes.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word hopefulness:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. hopefulness: Merriam-Webster
  2. hopefulness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hopefulness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hopefulness: Vocabulary.com
  5. Hopefulness, hopefulness: Wordnik
  6. hopefulness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. hopefulness: Wiktionary
  8. hopefulness: Dictionary.com
  9. Hopefulness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. hopefulness: Rhymezone
  11. hopefulness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. hopefulness: FreeDictionary.org
  13. hopefulness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. hopefulness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hopefulness: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hopefulness)

▸ noun:  The property of being hopeful.

Similar:
hope, optimism, high hopes, chipperness, cheerfulness, sunlight, happyness, joyfulness, sprightliness, blush, more...

Opposite:
despair, hopelessness, pessimism

Types:
optimism, pessimism, realism, cynicism, more...

Phrases:
Lord of All Hopefulness, more...

Adjectives:
great, new, buoyant, more, certain, bright, eager, general, cheerful, natural, sanguine



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Similar:
hope, optimism, high hopes, chipperness, cheerfulness, sunlight, happyness, joyfulness, sprightliness, blush, more...

Opposite:
despair, hopelessness, pessimism

Types:
optimism, pessimism, realism, cynicism, more...

Phrases:
Lord of All Hopefulness, more...

Adjectives:
great, new, buoyant, more, certain, bright, eager, general, cheerful, natural, sanguine



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