释义 |
pejorism|ˈpiːdʒərɪz(ə)m| [f. L. pējor, pējōrem worse + -ism, after pessimism.] The belief that the world is becoming worse.
1878Max Müller Hibbert Lect. vii. 371 Man has believed in pessimism, he has hardly ever believed in pejorism. 1910R. Brooke Let. 7 Nov. (1968) 261 Pejorism is the Art of thinking things Worse than they Are in order that you may thereby be the more powerfully impelled to Better them. |