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 - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne