negativism
noun
a negative or pessimistic attitude.
negativistic
-
a word derived from
negativism.
Example Sentences
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Certainly this type of thinking is more valuable and constructive than the hysterical and negativistic brand so widespread at the moment.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Most of the patients showed a sullen, slightly aggressive, or negativistic behavior,” according to the book.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Shortly after confinement began, he became stuporous, being mute and negativistic, soiling, refusing food and showing stereotypy.
From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy
He was mute, negativistic, and assumed various uncomfortable and constrained attitudes.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck
Very often the failure to swallow and anomalous habits of excretion seem to be negativistic in their nature.
From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy
