Sanguineness vs Overhope - What's the difference?
sanguineness | overhope |
Excessive hope or anticipation; presumption.
*1859 , Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, The works of Francis Bacon: Volume 7 :
Hopefulness; sanguineness.
To hope excessively; presume.
*1919 , The Country gentleman: Volume 84:
*1992 , David G. Moursund, International Society for Technology in Education, The technology coordinator :
To hope constantly.
As nouns the difference between sanguineness and overhope
is that sanguineness is the property of being sanguine while overhope is excessive hope or anticipation; presumption.As a verb overhope is
to hope excessively; presume.overhope
English
Noun
(en noun)- If the good turn out less than you hoped for, good though it be, yet because it is not so good, it seems to you more like a loss than a gain, by reason of the overhope .
Verb
(overhop)- If we have overhoped ourselves in the hay we may have done the same with the hogs.
- I'll cast this observation a little too broadly to make the point clearer: many principals "overhoped " that computers would have miraculous effects on all students exposed to them even if only for a few minutes per week, and now finding [...]