Miserablism vs Miserabilism - What's the difference?
miserablism | miserabilism | Alternative forms |
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=March 21, author=Manohla Dargis, title=Those New Directors Keep on Emerging..., work=New York Times
, passage=Also screening during this first festival week is Andrea Arnold’s “Red Road,” a well-acted slice of British miserablism about a woman out for revenge by any preposterous means necessary. }} A tendency to take a miserable or pessimistic view on life; a consistently miserable outlook, negativity.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 267:
*:Parlementary ideas invariably evinced that most thoroughgoing national miserabilism which had impressed poor Damiens [...].
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=May 15, author=Manohla Dargis, title=A Less Crowded Cannes, and Perhaps a Silver Lining, work=New York Times
, passage=A beautiful-looking slice of British miserabilism , “Fish Tank” traces what happens to a 15-year-old (Katie Jarvis) when her mother’s boyfriend moves into the family’s cramped flat, a story that can be summed up by the lyrics, sung by Nas, that portentously bring the accumulated bleak moments to a close: “Life’s a bitch and then you die.” }}
Miserablism is an alternative form of miserabilism.
As nouns the difference between miserablism and miserabilism
is that miserablism is while miserabilism is a tendency to take a miserable or pessimistic view on life; a consistently miserable outlook, negativity.miserablism
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miserabilism
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*miserablismNoun
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