Pessimism

Definition of Pessimism

Pes´si`mism
n.1.(Metaph.) The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; - opposed to optimism.
2.A disposition to take the least hopeful view of things.

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