different between pessimism vs pessimal

English

Etymology

From French pessimisme, from Latin pessimus (“worst”), superlative of malus (“bad”).As a doctrine, from German Pessimismus as used by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer in 1819.

Noun

pessimism (usually uncountable, plural pessimisms)

1. A general belief that bad things will happen.
2. The doctrine that this world is the worst of all possible worlds.
3. (computing) The condition of being pessimal.

Antonyms

• optimism

Related terms

• pessimist
• pessimistic

Derived terms

• cultural pessimism
• ecopessimism

Translations

Further reading

• pessimism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pessimism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• pessimism at OneLook Dictionary Search

Swedish

Noun

pessimism c

1. pessimism; a general belief that bad things will happen

Declension

Antonyms

• optimism

Related terms

• pessimist
• pessimistisk

English

Etymology

From Latin pessimus (“worst”) +? -al, modeled on optimal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?s?m?l/
• Hyphenation: pes?si?mal

Adjective

pessimal (not comparable)

1. bad to a maximal extent; worst

Related terms

Antonyms

• optimal

Quotations

• Bollobas, Bela. Modern Graph Theory. 1998.

  "Optimal and Pessimal Orderings of Steiner Triple Systems in Disk Arrays" [1]

• Ordeshook, Peter C; Rose, Gregory F; Niou, Emerson M. The balance of power: Stability in international systems. 1989.

  "Calculated in this way, a security value represents a pessimal view of possibilities." [2]

• Sethi, Suresh P. Optimal Control Theory: Applications to Management Science and Economics. 2019

  "…the limiting solution is a pessimal solution because the value of the objective function associated with it is zero." [3]

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