Noun
acceptance of the inevitability of defeat
Source: WordNetDefeatism 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