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malism (uncountable)
- The belief that the world is inherently evil.
- Antonym: bonism
- 1895, Lionel Arthur Tollemache, Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol, page 91:
- Jowett's optimism verges on pessimism, or, let us say, his bonism verges on malism.
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