0 a way of thinking or behaving that shows that you have no hope and expect to fail: --
1 a way of thinking or behaving that shows that you expect to fail: --
He criticized his party for defeatism.
It would be dangerous defeatism at this time to deny it.
However, that does not justify the utilising of the crisis, as has been done, to secure party political points or to arouse defeatism.
Secondly, it goes without saying, that we must avoid the slightest suspicion of defeatism.
You do not get the spirit of defeatism amongst the real working class in this country.
It is sheer defeatism, a counsel of despair, to throw up the sponge and go in for all-round restriction.
They are still struggling against the defeatism and despair of that terrible year 1940.
Let me say that such talk is really nothing less than sheer defeatism, and in no way helps to solve our difficulties.
We have passed away from the deplorable era of defeatism, decadence and depression of the immediate post-war era after the last war.
