défaitisme

== French == === Etymology === Coined in 1915 by Russian writer Grigorij Aleksinskij as a calque of Russian пораженчество (poraženčestvo), also coined by him as a derivation of поразить (porazitʹ, “to strike, defeat”). By surface analysis, défaite (“defeat”) +‎ -isme (“-ism”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /de.fɛ.tism/ ~ /de.fɛ.tizm/ ~ /de.fe.tism/ ~ /de.fe.tizm/ === Noun === défaitisme m (uncountable) defeatism ==== Related terms ==== défaite défaitiste === Further reading === “défaitisme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012