pessimism
意味
- 悲観[論],厭世(えんせい)主義
例文
His pessimism depressed those around him.
彼の悲観論は周囲の人々を滅入らせた。
The article's tone was one of pessimism.
記事の論調は一種の悲観論だった。
Pessimism believes in no improvement.
悲観主義は、向上することを信じないのだ。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From French pessimisme, from Latin pessimus (“worst”) + -ism, superlative of malus (“bad”). As a doctrine, from German Pessimismus as used by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer in 1819.