“pejorism”的英英意思

单词 pejorism
释义 pejorism|ˈpiːdʒərɪz(ə)m|
[f. L. pējor, pējōrem worse + -ism, after pessimism.]
The belief that the world is becoming worse.
1878Max Müller Hibbert Lect. vii. 371 Man has believed in pessimism, he has hardly ever believed in pejorism.1910R. Brooke Let. 7 Nov. (1968) 261 Pejorism is the Art of thinking things Worse than they Are in order that you may thereby be the more powerfully impelled to Better them.

 

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