one who holds that deterioration, not progress, is the order of things.
| 单词 | θ128708 |
| 释义 | the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > pessimism > [noun] > a pessimist (7) deteriorationist1816 one who holds that deterioration, not progress, is the order of things. pessimist1827 A person who is inclined to pessimism; a person who habitually takes an unhopeful or the worst view of things, or who interprets circumstances… degenerationist1871 one who holds a theory of degeneration. Calamity Jane1876 the nickname of Martha Jane Burke (née Canary) (? 1852–1903), a famous American horse-rider and markswoman, applied to a prophet of disaster. catastrophist1879 A person who regards historical or political events as progressively disastrous; a pessimist. miserabilist1986 An advocate of miserabilism; a person who is self-indulgently pessimistic or gloomily negative. Debbie Downer2004 (A name for) a person who is habitually pessimistic, negative, gloomy, etc. |
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