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1. (n.) pessimism
the tendency to see only what is disadvantageous or gloomy or to anticipate the worst outcome.
2. pessimism
the doctrine that the existing world is the worst of all possible worlds or that all things naturally tend toward evil.
3. pessimism
the belief that the evil and pain in the world outweigh any goodness or happiness.
Etymology: (1785–95; < L pessim(us), superl. of malus bad + -ism ; modeled on optimism)
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| Definition of 'Pessimism' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) pessimism
the feeling that things will turn out badly
2. (noun) pessimism
a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Pessimism
the opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; -- opposed to optimism
2. (noun) Pessimism
a disposition to take the least hopeful view of things
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| Definitions of 'Pessimism' |
The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. Pessimism
a name given now to a habit of feeling, now to a system of opinion; as the former it denotes a tendency to dwell on the dark or gloomy side of things, culminating in a sense of their vanity and nothingness, while in the latter it is applied to all systems of opinion which lay the finger on some black spot in the structure of the life of the world or of the universe, which so long as it remains is thought to render it unworthy of existence.
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Sense: the state of mind of a person who always expects bad things to happen.
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 Arabic: تَشاؤُم |
 Bulgarian: песимизъм |
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 German: der Pessimismus |
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 Estonian: pessimism |
 Farsi: بدبینی |
 Finnish: pessimismi |
 French: pessimisme |
 Hebrew: פֶּסִימִיוּת |
 Hindi: निराशावाद, दुखवाद |
 Croatian: pesimizam |
 Hungarian: pesszimizmus |
 Indonesian: pesimisme |
 Icelandic: svartsÿni |
 Italian: pessimismo |
 Japanese: 悲観主義 |
 Korean: 비관주의 |
 Lithuanian: pesimizmas |
 Latvian: pesimisms |
 Malay: sikap pesimis |
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 Persian: بدبینی |
 Pashto: پد ايسيد نه ، بدبينى، ناا |
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 Thai: การมองโลกในแง่ร้าย |
 Turkish: kötümserlik |
 Taiwanese: 悲觀，悲觀主義 |
 Ukrainian: песимізм |
 Urdu: قنوطيت |
 Vietnamese: tính bi quan |
 Chinese: 悲观，悲观主义 |
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