Doomerism
//ˈduː.məˌɹɪ.zəm// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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
More examples"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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