English-Portuguese translations for defeatism

• derrotismo
  Todavia, não devemos deixar-nos vencer pelo pessimismo nem pelo derrotismo. However, we must not indulge in pessimism or defeatism.
  Em nome de um realismo inexistente, a recomendação distorce a natureza do problema, transformando um problema social num problema médico, e o resultado é a submissão e derrotismo. In the name of a non-existent realism, the recommendation distorts the nature of the problem from a social to a medical problem, something which results in submission and defeatism.
  Não podemos nem subestimar os pontos marcados, pois sem isso estamos a cultivar o derrotismo, nem sobrestimar o que pensamos adquirido, sob pena de prepararmos desilusões.One must neither underestimate the points scored, otherwise one encourages defeatism, nor overestimate what seems to have been won, for fear of setting oneself up for disillusionment.

Definition of defeatism

• Acceptance of defeat without struggle

Examples

• Objective assessment is good, but defeatism will reduce our potentials even when the prospects for victory have never been nearer.

Related words

• defeat
• defeated
• undefeated
• defeater
• defeatist
• defeature
• suffer a defeat
• snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
• snatch victory from the jaws of defeat