The phrase "absence of optimism" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or mindset where there is a lack of hope or positive expectations.
Example: "The report highlighted the absence of optimism among the employees regarding the company's future."
Alternatives: "lack of hope" or "deficiency of positivity".
Absence of unrealistic optimism in comparative risk judgements for cancer has been documented elsewhere [ 2].
high subjective well being (such as life satisfaction, absence of negative emotions, optimism and positive emotions) causes better health and longevity.
This provides further anecdotal evidence to back up a study published last year in the Journal of Applied Psychology, which showed that high subjective well being (such as life satisfaction, absence of negative emotions, optimism and positive emotions) causes better health and longevity.
Descriptions of new technology tend to be positive or neutral because individuals have a general default tendency towards forming positive attitudes in the absence of negative information (optimism or positivity bias).
Jason Oxman, senior vice president for industry affairs at the Consumer Electronics Association, the group that produces the show, said, "Exhibitors would not be investing in these kinds of marketing dollars in the absence of a pervasive sense of optimism about the industry".
The C and D components were not included due to the absence of influences both for optimism as well as for pessimism and estimates were constrained to be similar for boys and girls due to the absence of evidence for quantitative sex differences in the univariate analyses.
In the absence of better results, the initial optimism will increasingly give way to doubts over whether the poker-faced Di Matteo is really the gamechanger that the Schalke faithful crave.
I'm talking about the opposite of a speculative bubble: the absence of interest in owning stocks, a vacuum of optimism, a black hole of negativism.
