单词 | deteriorism |
释义 | deteriorismn. The doctrine that the tendency of things is to grow worse.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > pessimism > [noun] pessimism1815 deteriorism1880 miserabilism1882 1880 G. Smith in Atlantic Monthly No. 268. 212 Meliorism and the opposite theory, which we suppose must be called deteriorism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1880 |
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