defaitism

English

Etymology

From Dutch defaitisme, Finnish defaitismi, French défaitisme, or Swedish defaitism.

Noun

defaitism (uncountable)

1. (non-native speakers' English) Defeatism.
   • 1992 February 10, Fredrik.Ostman, “Swedish Double Standard (Gambling)”, in soc.culture.nordic‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-11:

     Now that's defaitism -- cheer up Janne, maybe some day we *will* get rid of these patronizing, moralizing humbugs :-) ?

   • 1998 August 13, Fenris, “Archived Message for Future Inhabitants”, in sci.environment‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-11:

     Don't all enviros have moments of defaitism from time to time?

   • 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.

   • 1999 November 13, Ron Ploeg, “Talking to Jackson about the state of the movie”, in alt.fan.tolkien‎^[4] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-11:

     There is neither need for patronising nor defaitism IMO.

   • 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.

   • 2003 April 7, Jukka K. Korpela, “longest thread”, in news.groups.questions‎^[6] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-11:

     Address munging is defaitism and doesn't bother spammers the least. But it is hostile to communication.