Bible Dictionaries
Pessimism
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(n.) A disposition to take the least hopeful view of things.
(2):
(n.) The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; - opposed to optimism.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pessimism'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/pessimism.html. 1828.