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9 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the feeling that things will turn out badly
noun a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things
originFrom French pessimisme, from Latin pessimus (“worst”) + -ism, superlative of malus (“bad”). As a doctrine, from German Pessimismus as used by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer in 1819.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- seismism 12
- mimesis 11
- immies 10
- missies 9
- immie 9
- impis 9
- mimes 9
- simps 9
- spims 9
- misses 8
- missis 8
- seisms 8