positive outlook
Expecting good things
A positive outlook is a tendency to expect favorable outcomes or to focus on what's good in a situation.
Someone with a positive outlook sees setbacks as temporary and opportunities as real: She maintained a positive outlook even during the layoffs.
The phrase often appears in self-help contexts and medical discussions, where attitude supposedly influences recovery.
- hopeDesire for good outcomes
- optimismTendency to expect good
- glass half fullPositive outlook metaphor
- bright sidePositive aspect of something
- growth mindsetBelief abilities improve through effort
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- optimismoptimism, hope, positivity, hopeful, hopefulness
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positive outlookpessimism
Expecting unfavorable outcomes
hopelessness · despair · defeatism · doom and gloom · bleak outlook
positive outlookcynicism
Distrust of human sincerity
negativity · distrust · suspicion · catastrophizing · worst-case thinking
positive outlookhopelessness
State without hope
despair · cynicism · nihilism · despondency · gloom