Associations to the word «Defeatism»

Wiktionary

DEFEATISM, noun. Acceptance of defeat without struggle.

Dictionary definition

DEFEATISM, noun. Acceptance of the inevitability of defeat.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope