- 1悲觀；悲觀主義
Pessimism is the habit of expecting the bad thing. If your first thought is “this will go wrong,” that is pessimism talking. People use it for a mood in a whole group too: “there is a lot of pessimism about jobs.” The person is a ; the adjective is . Though actually there is also a heavier, sense: a philosophy that says the world is, at bottom, a bad place. That doctrine is tied to the German Schopenhauer, who used Pessimismus in 1819. Everyday English mostly means the habit, not the whole philosophy. The opposite everyday word is optimism. The root is Latin pessimus, “worst.”
組成From French pessimisme, from Latin pessimus (“worst”) + -ism. As a doctrine, from German Pessimismus, used by Arthur Schopenhauer in 1819.
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- pessimistthe person who has this habit
- pessimisticthe adjective
- optimismformed the same way from Latin optimus (“best”), as the counterpart
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pessimismnoun/ˈpɛsɪmɪzəm/
- 1
A general belief that bad things will happen.
- Bourgeois novels were full of pessimism, their authors had sold out to capitalism and their heroes were mostly thieves, prostitutes, spies, and hooligans.
- 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.
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The doctrine that this world is the worst of all possible worlds.
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computingengineeringmathematicsThe condition of being pessimal.
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