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pejorism

/ˈpiː.d͡ʒə.ɹɪ.zəm/

pejorism noun: the belief that the world is becoming worse.

Noun

pejorism (uncountable)

  1. The belief that the world is becoming worse.
    • 2018 D Van Hulle: Negative Modernism: Beckett’s Poetics of Pejorism and Literary Enactment. Oxford University Research Archive https://ora.ox.ac.uk
      This search for the worst and worse is part of Beckett’s poetics of "pejorism". . . characterized by acts of linguistic pejoration, by a "fidelity to...

Questions about pejorism

What does pejorism mean?
Pejorism means the belief that the world is becoming worse.
What part of speech is pejorism?
Pejorism is a noun.
How do you pronounce pejorism?
Pejorism is pronounced /ˈpiː.d͡ʒə.ɹɪ.zəm/.

Words near pejorism in the dictionary

  1. pejorative
  2. pejoratively
  3. pejorativeness
  4. pejoratives
  5. pejorativization
  6. pejorism
  7. pejorist
  8. pejorists
  9. pejority
  10. pejorize
  11. pejorized

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