Pessimism is the habit of expecting the worst. Deep pessimism, a mood of pessimism, cure his pessimism.
It is not the same as realism, whatever pessimists say, and the evidence is that people who expect bad outcomes are no more accurate than anybody else. As a philosophical position it is the view that life contains more suffering than good.
1nounpessimismThe habit of expecting the worst.
“Despite her pessimism, the project turned out to be a great success.”
pessimism is an attitude.
French pessimisme comes from Latin pessimus, worst. Optimism was coined first, from optimus, best.
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From French pessimisme, from pessimus + -ism, superlative of malus (“bad”). As a doctrine, from German Pessimismus as used by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer in 1819.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA