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UK
/pˈɛsɪmˌɪzəm/
]
[ US /ˈpɛsəˌmɪzəm/ ]
[ US /ˈpɛsəˌmɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things
- the feeling that things will turn out badly
How To Use pessimism In A Sentence
- Kant's pessimism was based on his conception of the nature of living organisms.
- But we have yet to see that moment of maximum pessimism when values hit the floor. Times, Sunday Times
- After World War I they were less sanguine about progress and more inclined to the hereditarian pessimism of eugenics.
- Such pessimism has led multiculturalists to conflate the idea of humans as culture-bearing creatures with the idea that humans have to bear a particular culture.
- Today's intellectual pessimism and cultural disorientation distracts the human imagination from confronting challenges that lie ahead.
- In the laboratory of time, subtle essences of disenchantment and pessimism are distilled.
- Negative emotions, such as the feelings of hatred, meanness, low self-esteem and confidence, and pessimism, create an unpleasant person and a bleak destiny. Dr T.P.Chia
- My partner tends towards political pessimism.
- Inspiration moves one from pessimism to optimism, from doubt to faith, from despair to hope, and from darkness to light! RVM
- None of us would want pessimism to become ingrained. Times, Sunday Times