HOPEFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hopefulness mean? 

• HOPEFULNESS (noun)
  The noun HOPEFULNESS has 2 senses:

1. full of hope

2. the feeling you have when you have hope

  Familiarity information: HOPEFULNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOPEFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Full of hope

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("hopefulness" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hopefulness"):

confidence (a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable)

anticipation; expectation (anticipating with confidence of fulfillment)

Derivation:

hopeful (likely to turn out well in the future)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The feeling you have when you have hope

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("hopefulness" is a kind of...):

hope (the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled)

Antonym:

hopelessness (the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success)

Derivation:

hopeful (having or manifesting hope)