optimist
optimist Lexical Profile
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• noun
A person who tends to be hopeful and confident about the future or the successful outcome of something.
"As a lifelong optimist, she always looks for the silver lining even during challenging economic times."
An adherent of the philosophical doctrine that the existing world is the best of all possible worlds, or that good must ultimately prevail over evil in the universe.
"Voltaire wrote his satirical novella 'Candide' largely to ridicule the philosophical optimist who insists that every tragedy serves a greater good."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the mid-18th century from French 'optimiste', ultimately derived from the Latin superlative 'optimus' ('best'), originally coined to describe adherents of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's philosophical doctrine that we live in the best of all possible worlds.