"doomism" meaning in English

See doomism in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From doom + -ism. Etymology templates: {{af|en|doom|-ism}} doom + -ism Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} doomism (uncountable)
  1. (climate change) The belief that serious damage from climate change is unavoidable. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Climate change Related terms: doomerism, doomer, doomist, doomster, deep adaptation
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "doom",
        "3": "-ism"
      },
      "expansion": "doom + -ism",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From doom + -ism.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "doomism (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ism",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Climate change",
          "orig": "en:Climate change",
          "parents": [
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 September 21, Alexandra Villarreal, “Meet the doomers: why some young US voters have given up hope on climate”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Plenty of Gen Zers are still optimistic about the climate crisis and recognize an inherent fallacy within doomism.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Ketan Joshi, Windfall: Unlocking a fossil-free future, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Both denial and doomism serve the purpose of creating a justification for inaction, but doomism serves those who can't stomach the fever swamps of denialism.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Michael E. Mann, The New Climate War, PublicAffairs, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Finally, and most significantly, doomism has a strange view on the escapability of climate change.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The belief that serious damage from climate change is unavoidable."
      ],
      "id": "en-doomism-en-noun-4ANyC8pW",
      "links": [
        [
          "climate change",
          "climate change"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "climate change",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(climate change) The belief that serious damage from climate change is unavoidable."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "doomerism"
        },
        {
          "word": "doomer"
        },
        {
          "word": "doomist"
        },
        {
          "word": "doomster"
        },
        {
          "word": "deep adaptation"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "doomism"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "doom",
        "3": "-ism"
      },
      "expansion": "doom + -ism",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From doom + -ism.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "doomism (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "doomerism"
    },
    {
      "word": "doomer"
    },
    {
      "word": "doomist"
    },
    {
      "word": "doomster"
    },
    {
      "word": "deep adaptation"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ism",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Climate change"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 September 21, Alexandra Villarreal, “Meet the doomers: why some young US voters have given up hope on climate”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Plenty of Gen Zers are still optimistic about the climate crisis and recognize an inherent fallacy within doomism.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Ketan Joshi, Windfall: Unlocking a fossil-free future, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Both denial and doomism serve the purpose of creating a justification for inaction, but doomism serves those who can't stomach the fever swamps of denialism.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Michael E. Mann, The New Climate War, PublicAffairs, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Finally, and most significantly, doomism has a strange view on the escapability of climate change.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The belief that serious damage from climate change is unavoidable."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "climate change",
          "climate change"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "climate change",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(climate change) The belief that serious damage from climate change is unavoidable."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "doomism"
}

Download raw JSONL data for doomism meaning in English (1.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-10-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (9f93753 and c1a3a36). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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.