defeatism

1. 1.

   acceptance of the inevitability of defeat

   Broaderresignation

Other forms of defeatism

plural

defeatisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about defeatism

What does defeatism mean?

defeatism means "acceptance of the inevitability of defeat".

How many syllables are in defeatism?

defeatism has 4 syllables: de-fe-a-tism. The stress falls on "fe". In IPA it is /dɪˈfitɪzəm/.

Is defeatism a common word?

defeatism is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.