Pessimism: alternatives and connections

The doctrine of the Cynics; the quality of being cynical; the mental state, opinions, or conduct, of a cynic; morose and contemptuous views and opini…

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To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.

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The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

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Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts.

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One who advocates the doctrine of pessimism; -- opposed to optimist.

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One who advocates the doctrine of pessimism; -- opposed to optimist.

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Of or pertaining to pessimism; characterized by pessimism; gloomy; foreboding.

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Of or pertaining to pessimism; characterized by pessimism; gloomy; foreboding.

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The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is…

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The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is…

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