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Someone who tells the truth before it's fashionable, then says 'I told you so.'
means Someone who expects the worst outcome and generally sees the downside of any situation.
from From French pessimiste, built on Latin pessimus, meaning 'worst' — the superlative of malus (bad). Pessimus is the gloomy mirror twin of optimus ('best'), which gave us 'optimist.' Both words entered European languages in the 1700s through philosophical debates about whether this is the best of all possible worlds — Leibniz argued yes, and critics coined 'pessimism' to mock the idea, arguing the opposite with Latin's own superlative for 'bad' as their weapon.
- origin
- from Latin pessimus, meaning worst
- self-image
- calls itself a realist with better data
- psychology
- defensive pessimism actually improves performance for some
- optimist comparison
- lives longer in studies, oddly enough