defeatism
noun
Origin of defeatism
Related Words for defeatism
resignation, capitulation, humility, assent, prostration, appeasement, servility, obedience, acquiescence, deference, humbleness, tractability, malleability, surrender, yielding, meekness, subjection, docility, passivity, nonresistanceExamples from the Web for defeatism
Contemporary Examples of defeatism
Third, pulling out before any real efforts have been tried sends a message of hopelessness and defeatism more than anything else.
It was a country that had succumbed to paralysis and defeatism and nostalgia.
It seems at this point that dysfunction and defeatism are institutionally baked into the culture of the team.
For decades since, Britain has exercised its political resentments in the defeatism of the sporting field.
Even the Taliban picked it up as a supposed sign of American defeatism.
Historical Examples of defeatism
But not because of any anti-life attitude, or pessimism, or defeatism.
The VictorBryce Walton
The army was demoralized and saturated with the defeatism preached by the Porazhentsi.
BolshevismJohn Spargo
Some in our midst have sought to instill a feeling of fear and defeatism in the minds of the American people about this problem.
State of the Union Addresses of Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin D. Roosevelt
To face the task of finding jobs faster than invention can take them away--is not defeatism.
State of the Union Addresses of Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin D. Roosevelt