Noun: "one who is both skeptical and optimistic"
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- 1996 — Robert Rubino, "Questionable Support For New SF Ballpark", Santa Rosa Press Democrat, 24 March 1996:
- Then there are those of us who are agonizingly ambivalent about a new ballpark for the Giants. Call us "skeptimists."
- 2007 — Bill Buxton, Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design, Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann (2007), →ISBN, page 418:
- I am by nature what I call a skeptimist, that is, someone who tries to find a workable balance between their skepticism and optimism.
- 2010 — Natalie Black & Melissa Black, Double Sided, AuthorHouse (2010), →ISBN, page 6:
- Even I, a true skeptimist (it's a real thing), believe that not just looks can boost someone to the top of the food chain.