pejorism
/ˈpiːdʒərɪz(ə)m/ /ˈpɛdʒərɪz(ə)m/noun
The belief that the world is becoming worse.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900), Sanskritist and philologist. From classical Latin pēior worse + -ism, after pessimism.
- paca
- pacai
- well-imagined
- well-imitated
- well, I'm (or I'll be) buggered
- well-improved
- well in
- well-inclined
- well I never! (or well I never did!)
- well informed
- wellington
- Wellington, 1st Duke of
- Wellington apple
- wellington boot
- wellingtonia
- Wellingtonian
- well-inhabited
- wellink
- well-instituted
- well-instructed
- well-integrated
- well-intended
- well intentioned
- well-invented
- wellish