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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats