defeatism

Meaning

Noun

Acceptance of defeat without struggle.

Origin

Borrowed from French défaitisme, coined in 1915 by Russian writer Grigorij Aleksinskij as a translation of Russian пораже́нчество, also coined by him as a derivation of порази́ть. Surface analysis: defeat + -ism.

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