An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
PESSIMISM
pessimism
(noun) a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things
pessimism
(noun) the feeling that things will turn out badly
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pessimism (usually uncountable, plural pessimisms)
A general belief that bad things will happen.
The doctrine that this world is the worst of all possible worlds.
(computing) The condition of being pessimal.
Antonyms
• optimism
Source: Wiktionary
Pes"si*mism, n. Etym: [L. pessimus worst, superl. of pejor worse: cf. F. pessimisme. Cf. Impair.]
1. (Metaph.)
Definition: The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; -- opposed to Ant: optimism.
2. A disposition to take the least hopeful view of things.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNINFORMATIVELY
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