The word for today is…
sanguine (adjective, noun):
adjective
1: marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic
2: bloodred
3a: consisting of or relating to blood
b: bloodthirsty, sanguinary
c: accompanied by, involving, or relating to bloodshed : bloody
d: of the complexion : ruddy
4: having blood as the predominating bodily humor
noun
: a moderate to strong red
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : If you’re the sort of cheery, confident soul who always looks on the bright side no matter what happens, you may be described as sanguine. Sanguine traces back to the Latin noun sanguis, meaning “blood,” and over the centuries the word has had meanings ranging from “bloodthirsty” to “bloodred,” among other things in that (ahem) vein, so how did it also come to mean “hopeful”? During the Middle Ages, health and temperament were believed to be governed by the balance of different liquids, or humors, in one’s body: phlegm, black bile, yellow bile, and blood. Those lucky people who were governed by blood were strong, confident, and even had a healthy reddish glow (all that blood, you know)—they were, in a word, sanguine. In time, the physiological theory behind the humors was displaced by scientific medicine, but the word sanguine is still commonly used to describe those who are cheerfully confident.
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