Pessimism
[pes-uh-miz-uh m] /ˈpɛs əˌmɪz əm/
noun
1.
the tendency to see, anticipate, or emphasize only bad or undesirable outcomes, results, conditions, problems, etc.:
His pessimism about the future of our country depresses me.
2.
the doctrine that the existing world is the worst of all possible worlds, or that all things naturally tend to evil.
3.
the belief that the evil and pain in the world are not compensated for by goodness and happiness.
/ˈpɛsɪˌmɪzəm/
noun
1.
the tendency to expect the worst and see the worst in all things
2.
the doctrine of the ultimate triumph of evil over good
3.
the doctrine that this world is corrupt and that man’s sojourn in it is a preparation for some other existence
n.
1794 “worst condition possible,” borrowed (by Coleridge) from French pessimisme, formed (on model of French optimisme) from Latin pessimus “worst,” originally “bottom-most,” from PIE *ped-samo-, superlative of root *pes- “foot” (see foot (n.)). As a name given to the doctrines of Schopenhauer, Hartmann, etc., that this is the worst possible world, or that everything tends toward evil, it is first recorded 1835, from German pessimismus (Schopenhauer, 1819). The attempt to make a verb of it as pessimize (1862) did not succeed.
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