Doomerism

//ˈduː.məˌɹɪ.zəm// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Despair and apathy caused by disbelief in the possibility of change; the mindset of doomers. countable, neologism, uncountable

    "As a writer, she often balances rigorous thinking with a sense of wonder: being a scientist, she wrote in an essay challenging the climate doomerism of novelist Jonathan Franzen, “means I believe in miracles. I live on one. We are improbable life on a perfect planet.”"

Example

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"As a writer, she often balances rigorous thinking with a sense of wonder: being a scientist, she wrote in an essay challenging the climate doomerism of novelist Jonathan Franzen, “means I believe in miracles. I live on one. We are improbable life on a perfect planet.”"

Etymology

From doomer + -ism.

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