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Pessimism is a mental attitude in which an undesirable outcome is anticipated from a given situation. Pessimists tend to focus on the negatives of life in general. A common question asked to test for pessimism is "Is the glass half empty or half full?"; in this situation, a pessimist is said to see the glass as half empty, or in extreme cases completely…
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| Pessimism | is a | mental attitude in which an undesirable outcome is anticipated from a given situation | 0.90 | text |
| Pessimism | is a | belief that advances in science and technology do not lead to an improvement in the human condition | 0.90 | text |
| Pessimism | is a | widespread view in ecological economics and in the degrowth movement.LegalBibas writes that some criminal defense attorneys prefer to err on the side of pessimism | 0.90 | text |
| Pessimism | is a | widespread view in ecological economics and in the degrowth movement | 0.90 | text |
| Albert Camus believed | instance of | as philosophers | 0.80 | text |
| Oliver James correlate economic progress with economic inequality | instance of | a Dark Age of moral decline.Intellectuals | 0.80 | text |
| the stimulation of artificial needs | instance of | a Dark Age of moral decline.Intellectuals | 0.80 | text |
| and affluenza | instance of | a Dark Age of moral decline.Intellectuals | 0.80 | text |
| George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four | instance of | Political pessimism has sometimes found expression in dystopian novels | 0.80 | text |
| Pessimism | related to As a psychological disposition | In | 0.60 | section |
| Pessimism | related to As a psychological disposition | The | 0.60 | section |
| Pessimism | related to As a psychological disposition | Psychologists | 0.60 | section |
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