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hopium

noun
/ˈhəʊ.pi.əm/UK/ˈhoʊ.pi.əm/US

Etymology

Blend of hope + opium, as though it were a drug; regarding the surface analysis as hope + -ium, see copium § Etymology.

  1. derived from *sokʷós✻ — “juice, resin”
  2. derived from ὄπιον
  3. borrowed from opium
  4. compounded as hopium — “hope + opium”

Definitions

  1. A clinging to unreasonable or unfounded hopes.

    • Hopium can make you see potential in the grimmest set of circumstances.
    • This way, we might avoid depression, panic, denial, and hopium for good or bad news, any of which renders us more unrealistic, unprepared, and unwell.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hopium. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA