Term: optimism: a general disposition to expect the best in all things
Candidate hypernym: disposition: your usual mood → 1
Candidate hypernym: partition: a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) → 0
Candidate hypernym: breaking point: (psychology) stress at which a person breaks down or a situation becomes crucial → 0
Candidate hypernym: navy department: a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1798 and combined with the War Department in 1947 → 0
Candidate hypernym: disownment: refusal to acknowledge as one's own → 0
Candidate hypernym: obscurantism: a deliberate act intended to make something obscure → 0
Candidate hypernym: dwelling: housing that someone is living in → 0
Candidate hypernym: neuroplasty: plastic surgery of the nerves → 0
Candidate hypernym: fitted sheet: a sheet (usually with elastic edges) tailored to fit a particular mattress → 0
Candidate hypernym: marshal: a law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law → 0
Candidate hypernym: vampire: (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living → 0