Defn: Of or pertaining to optimism; tending, or conforming, to the opinion that all events are ordered for the best.
2. Hopeful; sanguine; as, an optimistic view.
OPTIMITY
Op*tim"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. optimitas, fr. optimus the best.]
Defn: The state of being best. [R.] Bailey.
OPTION Op"tion, n. Etym: [L. optio; akin to optare to choose, wish, optimus best, and perh. to E. apt: cf. F. option.]
1. The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative. There is an option left to the United States of America, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptible and miserable, as a nation. Washington.
2. The exercise of the power of choice; choice. Transplantation must proceed from the option of the people, else it sounds like an exile. Bacon.
3. A wishing; a wish. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
4. (Ch. of Eng.)
Defn: A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; — annulled by Parliament in 1845.