"defeatism" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /dɪˈfiːtɪzəm/ [UK] Audio: en-us-defeatism.ogg [US] Forms: defeatisms [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from French défaitisme, coined in 1915 by Russian writer Grigorij Aleksinskij as a translation of Russian пораже́нчество (poražénčestvo), also coined by him as a derivation of порази́ть (porazítʹ, “to strike, defeat”). By surface analysis, defeat + -ism. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|défaitisme}} French défaitisme, {{cog|ru|пораже́нчество}} Russian пораже́нчество (poražénčestvo), {{surf|en|defeat|-ism}} By surface analysis, defeat + -ism Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} defeatism (usually uncountable, plural defeatisms)
  1. Acceptance of defeat without struggle. Wikipedia link: Grigory Aleksinsky, defeatism Tags: uncountable, usually Derived forms: defeatist Translations (acceptance of defeat without struggle): паражэнства (paraženstva) [neuter] (Belarusian), пораже́нство (poražénstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), derrotisme [masculine] (Catalan), 失敗主義 (Chinese Mandarin), 失败主义 (shībàizhǔyì) (Chinese Mandarin), poraženectví [feminine] (Czech), defaitisme [common-gender] (Danish), defaitisme [neuter] (Dutch), berusting [common-gender] (Dutch), tappiomieliala (Finnish), defaitismi (Finnish), antautumismieliala (Finnish), défaitisme (French), derrotismo [masculine] (Galician), Defätismus [masculine] (German), Kapitulantentum [neuter] (German), Untergangsstimmung [feminine] (German), ηττοπάθεια (ittopátheia) [feminine] (Greek), תבוסתנות (tvustanut) [feminine] (Hebrew), disfattismo [masculine] (Italian), 敗北主義 (haibokushugi) (alt: はいぼくしゅぎ) (Japanese), defetyzm [masculine] (Polish), niedasizm [masculine] (Polish), derrotismo [masculine] (Portuguese), дефети́зм (defetízm) [masculine] (Russian), пораже́нчество (poražénčestvo) [neuter] (Russian), дефетизам [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), defetizam [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), derrotismo [masculine] (Spanish), defaitism (Swedish), дефети́зм (defetýzm) [masculine] (Ukrainian)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.