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Surrenders before the battle starts, then acts like a strategist for it.
means Someone who expects and accepts failure so readily that they give up trying before a real effort is made.
from Built straightforwardly from 'defeat' plus the agent/ideology suffix '-ist,' on the model of words like 'pessimist.' It entered English from French 'défaitiste,' coined around World War I to brand those urging capitulation or peace negotiations as traitorous quitters — a political insult before it became a general character flaw.
- origin
- from defeat plus the suffix for ideology
- self-fulfilling
- predicts failure, then ensures it
- disguise
- often mistaken for realism by the tired
- contrast
- opposite of resilience, not of optimism