Definition of "overoptimism" [overoptimism]

• Excessive optimism (noun)

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• "(and with what Lurie here even more generously calls "overoptimism"), this is troubling."
• "But analysts warned against overoptimism as Spain, along with the euro zone's other issuers, will have to sell government bonds totaling about €800 billion next year, and even more Treasury bills."
• "And the army's own overoptimism, that professional deformation of soldiers, also played a part in the very mixed military record since the first Iraq war."