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From Cynicism, cynic + -ism; compare cynism.
cynicism (countable and uncountable, plural cynicisms)
- (uncountable) A distrustful attitude.
- (uncountable) An emotion of jaded negativity, or a general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of others, due to belief that people are motivated solely by disguised self-interest.
- Coordinate term: skepticism
- (countable) A scornfully pessimistic comment or act.
- (uncountable, philosophy) A school of thought in the philosophy of Ancient Greece.
skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Afrikaans: sinisme
- Albanian: cinizëm (sq) m
- Armenian: ցինիզմ (hy) (cʻinizm)
- Belarusian: цыні́зм m (cynízm)
- Bulgarian: цини́зъм (bg) m (cinízăm)
- Catalan: cinisme m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 犬儒主義 / 犬儒主义 (zh) (quǎnrúzhǔyì)
- Czech: cynismus (cs) m
- Danish: kynisme c
- Dutch: cynisme (nl) n
- Esperanto: cinikismo
- Estonian: künism
- Finnish: kyynisyys (fi)
- French: cynisme (fr) m
- Galician: cinismo (gl) m
- Georgian: ცინიზმი (cinizmi)
- German: Zynismus (de) m
- Greek: κυνισμός (el) m (kynismós)
- Hungarian: cinizmus (hu)
- Italian: cinismo (it) m
- Japanese: 皮肉 (ja) (ひにく, hiniku), キニク主義 (キニクしゅぎ, kinikushugi), シニシズム (shinizumu), 冷笑 (ja) (れいしょう, reishō), 冷笑主義 (れいしょうしゅぎ, reishōshugi)
- Kazakh: шімірікпеу (šimirikpew)
- Korean: 냉소(冷笑) (ko) (naengso), 랭소(冷笑) (ko) (raengso) (North Korea), 냉소주의(冷笑主義) (naengsojuui), 랭소주의(冷笑主義) (raengsojuui) (North Korea)
- Latvian: cinisms m
- Lithuanian: cinizmas m
- Macedonian: цини́зам m (cinízam)
- Malay: sinisme, sinisisme
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kynisme m
- Polish: cynizm (pl) m
- Portuguese: cinismo (pt) m
- Romanian: cinism (ro) n
- Russian: цини́зм (ru) m (cinízm)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: цинѝзам m
- Latin: cinìzam (sh) m
- Sicilian: cinìsimu m
- Slovak: cynizmus m
- Slovene: cinizem m
- Spanish: cinismo (es) m
- Swedish: cynism (sv) c
- Turkish: sinizm (tr)
- Ukrainian: цині́зм (uk) m (cynízm)
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