If you're the sort of cheery soul who always looks on the bright side no matter what happens, you have a sanguine personality.
Sanguine
describes one of the temperaments that ancient and medieval scholars
believed was caused by an abundance of one of the four humors (another
is
phlegmatic, an adjective that
describes the calm, cool, and collected among us). The word
sanguine derives from
sanguineus,
Latin for "blood" or "bloody," and over the more than 600 years it's
been in use it has had meanings ranging from "bloodthirsty" and
"bloodred" to today's most common one, "confident, optimistic."
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