deteriorationism
nounEtymology From deterioration + -ism.
1
A belief that things tend to grow progressively worse.
- Emotionally, Peacock was always drawn to deteriorationism, and in this novel he seems to feel that every facet of public life has grown more corrupt.1985, Bryan Burns, The novels of Thomas Love Peacock:
- Derived terms
- deteriorationist
- Related terms
- declinism, shittification