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Mar 26, 2025
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whatness
fleshment
pejorism
uniquity
whereness

pejorism
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pejorism

PRONUNCIATION:
(PEJ-uh-riz-uhm)

MEANING:
noun: The belief that the world is becoming worse.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin peior (worse). Earliest documented use: 1879. One holding such a belief is a pejorist.

USAGE:
“It is pejorism in this sense that Housman conveys:
‘the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill’”
E.E. Sheng; Housman’s Compassionate Didactic; Victorian Poetry (Morgantown, West Virginia); Winter 2020.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake. -Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (26 Mar 1905-1997)

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