Hopefulness
['həupfulnis]
Definition
(noun.) the feeling you have when you have hope.
(noun.) full of hope.
Checked by Annabelle--From WordNet
Examples
- The groundwork of the face was hopefulness; but over it now I ay like a foreign substance a film of anxiety and grief. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I might not have the hopefulness to do it for weeks; I might (mistaken or not mistaken) have that hopefulness to-morrow. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- For they actually presented the absurdity of being less than his hopefulness had decided that they must be. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There was an anxiety even in her hopefulness that made me doubtful if I had done right in approaching the subject. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In the wild lust of hand-to-hand combat my old dauntless hopefulness returned. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- On both occasions Fred had felt confident that he should meet the bill himself, having ample funds at disposal in his own hopefulness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Fred's mind, on the other hand, was busy with an anxiety which even his ready hopefulness could not immediately quell. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Maura