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negativistic

/neg-uh-ti-viz-uhm/US // ˈnɛg ə tɪˌvɪz əm //UK // (ˈnɛɡətɪvˌɪzəm) //

负面的,消极的,消极主义,消极主义的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a negative or pessimistic attitude.
    • : Psychology. a tendency to resist external commands, suggestions, or expectations, or internal stimuli, as hunger, by doing nothing or something contrary or unrelated to the stimulus.
    • : any system of negative philosophy, as agnosticism or skepticism.

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Examples

  • He was mute, negativistic, and assumed various uncomfortable and constrained attitudes.

  • A final stage of resistance is reached when propaganda develops a negativistic defensive reaction.

  • Disposing causes of negativistic phenomena are: the ambitendency by which every impulse is accompanied by its opposite.

  • Very often the failure to swallow and anomalous habits of excretion seem to be negativistic in their nature.