pessimism

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Philosophical pessimism

From French pessimisme, from Latin pessimus (“worst”) +‎ -ism, superlative of malus (“bad”). As a doctrine, from German Pessimismus as used by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer in 1819.

pessimism (usually uncountable, plural pessimisms)

A general belief that bad things will happen.
Hyponym: declinism
- 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in The Guardian‎:
  T2 isn’t as good as T1: it is a little too long and unwinds a bit into caper sentimentality, broad comedy and self-mythologising. But it has the same punchy energy, the same defiant pessimism, and there’s nothing around like it. This sequel was a high-wire act, but Boyle has made it to the other side.
The doctrine that this world is the worst of all possible worlds.
(computing) The condition of being pessimal.

general belief that bad things will happen

doctrine that this world is the worst of all possible worlds

Arabic: تَشَاؤُم m (tašāʔum)
Armenian: հոռետեսություն (hy) (hoṙetesutʻyun)
Bengali: নৈরাশ্যবাদ (nōiraśśobad)
Catalan: pessimisme (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 悲觀主義 / 悲观主义 (zh) (bēiguānzhǔyì)
Finnish: pessimismi (fi)
French: pessimisme (fr) m
Galician: pesimismo m
German: Pessimismus (de) m
Hungarian: pesszimizmus (hu)
Indonesian: pesimisme (id)
Japanese: 悲観主義 (ひかんしゅぎ, hikanshugi), 厭世主義 (えんせいしゅぎ, enseishugi), 厭世観 (えんせいかん, enseikan)
Kazakh: пессимизм (pessimizm), үмітсіздік (ümıtsızdık)
Korean: 염세주의(厭世主義) (ko) (yeomsejuui), 비관주의(悲觀主義) (bigwanjuui), 페시미즘 (pesimijeum)
Malayalam: നൈരാശ്യവാദം (nairāśyavādaṁ)
Portuguese: pessimismo (pt) m
Russian: пессими́зм (ru) m (pessimízm)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: песимѝзам m

Roman: pesimìzam (sh) m
Tamil: இழநம்பிக்கை (ta) (iḻanampikkai)
Thai: ทุทรรศนนิยม, ทุนิยม
Turkish: pesimizm (tr), kötümserlik (tr), karamsarlık (tr)
Vietnamese: bi quan triết học (悲觀哲學)
Volapük: badim (vo)

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