name
Meaning 1
the philosophy of the Greek Cynics
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Standard Lemma guide
cynicism
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UK: /ˈsɪn.ɪˌsɪzəm/
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homophone: Sinicism
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noun
Meaning 2
A distrustful attitude.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
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.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A scornfully pessimistic comment or act.
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Usage: countable
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noun
Meaning 5
A school of thought in the philosophy of Ancient Greece.
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Usage: uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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noun
Meaning 6
a cynical feeling of distrust
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Broader terms: pessimism
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English Cynic Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English Cynicism From Cynic + -ism.
From Cynicism, cynic + -ism; compare cynism.
Across languages
Translations
50 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Ancient Greek: Κυνισμός (Kunismós) — philosophy of the Cynics
- Afrikaans: sinisme — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Albanian: cinizëm — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Armenian: ցինիզմ (cʻinizm) — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Belarusian: цыні́зм (cynízm) — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Bulgarian: цини́зъм (cinízǎm) — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Catalan: cinisme — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Chinese Mandarin: 犬儒主義 /犬儒主义 (quǎnrúzhǔyì) — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Czech: cynismus — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Danish: kynisme — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Dutch: cynisme — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Esperanto: cinikismo — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Estonian: künism — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Finnish: kyynisyys — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- French: cynisme — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Galician: cinismo — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Georgian: ცინიზმი (cinizmi) — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- German: Zynismus — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Greek: κυνισμός (kynismós) — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Hungarian: cinizmus — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Italian: cinismo — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Japanese: 皮肉 (hiniku) — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Japanese: キニク主義 (kinikushugi) — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Japanese: シニシズム (shinizumu) — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Japanese: 冷笑 (reishō) — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Japanese: 冷笑主義 (reishōshugi) — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Kazakh: шімірікпеу (şımırıkpeu) — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Korean: 냉소 (naengso) — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Korean: 랭소 (raengso) — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Korean: 냉소주의 (naengsojuui) — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Korean: 랭소주의 (raengsojuui) — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Latvian: cinisms — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Lithuanian: cinizmas — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Macedonian: цини́зам (cinízam) — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Malay: sinisme — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Malay: sinisisme — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Norwegian Bokmål: kynisme — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Polish: cynizm — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Portuguese: cinismo — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Romanian: cinism — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Russian: цини́зм (cinízm) — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Serbo-Croatian: цинѝзам — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Serbo-Croatian: cinìzam — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Sicilian: cinìsimu — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Slovak: cynizmus — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Slovene: cinizem — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Spanish: cinismo — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Swedish: cynism — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Turkish: sinizm — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude
- Ukrainian: цині́зм (cynízm) — skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude