PESSIMISM


Meaning of PESSIMISM in English

noun see: pejorative Date: 1815 an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome, 2. the doctrine that reality is essentially evil, the doctrine that evil overbalances happiness in life, pessimist noun

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