Solace and Optimism

noun

• The comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment.
  • usage: "second place was no consolation to him"
  • synonyms: consolation, solacement
• Comfort in disappointment or misery.
  • synonyms: solacement
• The act of consoling; giving relief in affliction.
  • usage: "his presence was a consolation to her"
  • synonyms: consolation, comfort

verb

• Give moral or emotional strength to.
  • synonyms: comfort, soothe, console

• (v.i.) To take comfort; to be cheered.
• (v.t.) Rest; relaxation; ease.
• (v.t.) Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief.
• (n.) To allay; to assuage; to soothe; as, to solace grief.
• (n.) To cheer in grief or under calamity; to comfort; to relieve in affliction, solitude or discomfort; to console; -- applied to persons; as, to solace one with the hope of future reward.

• Name Meaning: Comfort
• Name Origin: ,

noun

• The optimistic feeling that all is going to turn out well.
• A general disposition to expect the best in all things. .

• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A disposition to take the most hopeful view; -- opposed to pessimism.

OPTIMISM is a general disposition to expect the best in all things.