defaitism
English edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch defaitisme, Finnish defaitismi, French défaitisme, or Swedish defaitism.
Noun edit
defaitism (uncountable)
- (non-native speakers' English) Defeatism.
- 1999 September 24, Steph, “In love with woman with intercultural baby! HELP”, in soc.couples.intercultural[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-11:
- Women react to adversity differently from what we'd expect, and different women react in different ways. Sometimes they express their insecurity by various forms of defaitism, escape and by being intimidated by the whole thing rather then by investing more effort, what u might have expected.
- 2002 December 1, Nes, “In wake of Predator success, U.S. weighs assassination options”, in alt.politics.bush[5] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-11:
- Any attempts to try to negotiate with the New Order of the US or to make deals with it are simply to be regarded as defaitism and appeasement. Everybody out there, take heed of the warnings of history.