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Categories: Epistemology, Motivation, Emotions, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference

pessimism Entropy pessimism environmental pessimism Ideological pessimism Malism

A general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things WordNet 3.0

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A general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Pessimism is a mental attitude in which an undesirable outcome is anticipated from a given situation. Wikipedia

Mental attitude and philosophical position that dwells on the dark or gloomy side of things, the world or the universe, culminating in a sense of their vanity and nothingness that is sometimes thought to render them unworthy of existence Wikidata

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