defeatism

Noun

Meaning

acceptance of the inevitability of defeat

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

resignation despair desperation pessimism nihilism fatalism cynicism negativity despondency discouragement gloominess negativeness megrims hopelessness pyrrhonism
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Antonyms

fountain pep sparkle caper jollity joviality
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Hypernyms

surrender resignation

Related terms

defeatist

Examples

Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by democratic governments in modern times. Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

This face seemed full of suffering, despair, confusion, so that I became uneasy again... It seemed like tiredness and defeatism spread from him to everyone close by. Ingeborg Refling Hagen

Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other than get on with it and simply adjust our norms - is a persistent feature of social thought about technology. We'll come to pay for it very dearly. Evgeny Morozov

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism. Jack Kemp

The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes. Os Guinness

Mary Massey argues these elite exiles introduced an element of defeatism into the southern outlook. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

defeatican defeating the opposition defeatingly defeatist defeatist attitude defeatist mentality