Crossword clues for defeatism
The Collaborative International Dictionary
defeatism \defeatism\ n. acceptance of the inevitability of defeat.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1918; see defeatist.
Wiktionary
n. acceptance of defeat without struggle.
WordNet
n. acceptance of the inevitability of defeat
Wikipedia
Defeatism is the acceptance of defeat without struggle, often with negative connotations. It can be linked to pessimism in psychology.
Usage examples of "defeatism".
French, their nation already paralyzed by internal strife and the people sinking into defeatism, did not know this when a small token force of German troops paraded across the Rhine bridges at dawn on March 7 and entered the demilitarized zone.
Finally in desperation the spineless Army chief informed the Fuehrer that the morale of the troops in the west was similar to that in 1917-18, when there was defeatism, insubordination and even mutiny in the German Army.
French defeatism and the final surrender and the break with Britain, it must be recorded that he at least strenuously objected to many of the German demands.
Taylor, who at great personal risk had secretly gone to Rome to confer with Badoglio, reported that because of Italian defeatism and German strength the dropping of an American airborne division there appeared to be suicidal.
Even if the Nationalist Government survived in an area reduced and fragmented by the new Japanese inroads, defeatism and decay from within would be accelerated.