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declinism

noun
/dɪˈklaɪnɪzəm/UK

Etymology

From decline + -ism.

  1. derived from decliner
  2. inherited from declīnian
  3. derived from *ḱley-✻
  4. derived from declīnō — “to bend, turn aside, deflect, inflect, decline”
  5. inherited from declinen
  6. suffixed as declinism — “decline + ism”

Definitions

  1. A pessimistic belief that things are in decline.

    • Laudably, he [Cullen Murphy] ends on some optimistic notes, and some prescriptions, rather than wallowing in declinism.
    • So maybe declinism is just a quirk of human psychology.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for declinism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA