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Anonymous Thu Aug 29 14:53:25 2019 No.13726049 [Reply] [Original]

What is a word for cynicism that doesn't comment on human nature specifically? Just like a very bleak and sterile view of reality?

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 29 14:56:03 2019 No.13726066 Edge.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 29 14:56:59 2019 No.13726072 >>13726066 No, a real word dumbdumb. And not one that is necessarily derogatory either.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 29 14:57:47 2019 No.13726078 >>13726049 pessimism

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 29 14:58:08 2019 No.13726082 Realism

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 29 15:06:50 2019 No.13726125 >>13726049 depression

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 29 15:06:56 2019 No.13726128 >>13726078 Nah, pessimism just means thinking something is ultimately bad or something ultimately bad will happen. It can still be quite dramatic.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 29 15:09:52 2019 No.13726144 >>13726049 There isn't a word for every gradation of feeling.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 29 15:13:19 2019 No.13726161 >>13726144 well there should be

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 29 15:18:24 2019 No.13726195 >>13726161 just number it. i'm sad 1 = dropped 20 bucks on the ground i'm sad 10 = i hate my life and i'm gonna kill myself

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 29 15:22:50 2019 No.13726228 >>13726144 There is in German.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 29 15:23:01 2019 No.13726229 >>13726195 Maybe I could use a term like "Ontological cynicism" or "Metaphysical cynicism"?

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 29 15:29:21 2019 No.13726265 >>13726229 sure

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 29 15:42:38 2019 No.13726333 >>13726229 /lit/ just coined a new word Congratulations, everyone

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 29 17:32:46 2019 No.13726859 Christianity

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 29 17:35:40 2019 No.13726868 Weltschmerz

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 29 17:35:47 2019 No.13726869 >>13726082 That's just reality without the good par- Oh yeah. This is the word.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 29 17:36:01 2019 No.13726871 Apathy Blasé

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 03:31:46 2019 No.13727467 anhedonia

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 11:52:18 2019 No.13728472 >>13726049 nihilistic materialism

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