Optimism is a mental attitude reflecting a belief or hope that the outcome of some specific endeavor, or outcomes in general, will be positive, favorable, and desirable. A common idiom used to illustrate optimism versus pessimism is a glass filled with water to the halfway point, where the optimist is said to see the glass as half full and the pessimist sees the glass as half empty. The term derives from the Latin optimum, meaning best. Being optimistic, in the typical sense of the word, is de
A tuple is a finite ordered list of elements. In mathematics, an n-tuple is a sequence (or ordered list) of n elements, where n is a non-negative integer. There is only one 0-tuple, an empty sequence. An n-tuple is defined inductively using the construction of an ordered pair.
SYNONYMY NOTE: a platitude is a trite remark or idea, esp. one uttered as if it were novel or momentous; a , commonplace is any obvious or conventional remark or idea; a , truism is a statement whose truth is widely known and whose utterance, therefore, seems superfluous; a , clichÃ© is an expression or idea which, though once fresh and forceful, has ...