单词	declinism
释义	declinism /dɪˈklʌɪnɪz(ə)m / noun [mass noun] The belief that a particular country, society, or institution is in a state of significant and possibly irreversible decline: polls showed a rise in declinism after Nixon’s devaluation of the dollar... The essential problem of declinism was that it sought to explain Britain's undoubted relative decline in terms of British failure. Declinism tends to produce overly cautious behavior that could undercut our influence. The authors noted that declinism in America had a long history going back to late seventeenth century Puritans.
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