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- German · derived fromPessimismus
- French · derived frompessimisme
- English todaypessimism
From French pessimisme, from Latin pessimus (“worst”) + -ism, superlative of malus (“bad”). As a doctrine, from German Pessimismus as used by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer in 1819.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.