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Opium vs Hopium - What's the difference?

opium | hopium |

As nouns the difference between opium and hopium

is that opium is a yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine while hopium is irrational or unwarranted optimism.

opium

English

(wikipedia opium)

Noun

  • (uncountable) A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum , and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.
  • (countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.
  • * "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, . . . It is the opium of the people." -

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    hopium

    English

    Noun

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  • (informal, derogatory) Irrational or unwarranted optimism.
  • * 2010 , W. C. Augustine, Atlas Rising , Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC (2010), ISBN 9781617393297, page 206:
    • "I think you are unconsciously smoking hopium . I'm putting the odds less than twenty percent.

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