All pessimism synonyms

noun pessimism

• defeatism — Defeatism is a way of thinking or talking which suggests that you expect to be unsuccessful.
• nihilism — total rejection of established laws and institutions.
• cheerlessness — The state or characteristic of being cheerless.
• glumness — sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected.
• catatonia — a state of muscular rigidity and stupor, sometimes found in schizophrenia
• discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
• negativism — a negative or pessimistic attitude.
• doldrums — A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks – so called by sailors.
• negativity — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
• mournfulness — The property of being mournful.
• morbidities — a morbid state or quality.
• morbidity — a morbid state or quality.
• cynicism — Cynicism is the belief that people always act selfishly.
• gloom — total or partial darkness; dimness.
• misandry — hatred of males.
• disconsolateness — (uncountable) The state of being disconsolate; gloom.
• fatalism — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
• gloom and doom — an account or prediction of adversity, especially in economic or business affairs; bad news: a trade journal full of gloom and doom about next year's trends.
• death instinct — the destructive or aggressive instinct, based on a compulsion to return to an earlier harmonious state and, ultimately, to nonexistence
• death wish — A death wish is a conscious or unconscious desire to die or be killed.
• gloominess — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
• misanthropy — hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind.