Pessimistic Tourism

A type of tourism in which people will visit somewhere specifically because they believe that it is endangered in some way or another. For example, people visit Antarctica or rainforests and other untouched natural wildernesses as they believe that it will be destroyed due to climate change and direct human action in the near future and want to visit it whilst they still can. People might also do the same for man-made areas before they are supposedly torn down or otherwise closed or repurposed.

Those who visit Antarctica or glaciers solely because they know it is melting and will soon disappear are engaging in pessimistic tourism.

by Gentleman of Rhubarb January 2, 2023

Pessimist

A pessimist is someone like Ivanka Božović who has no hope for the future

Ivanka doesnt want to find new friends due to the fact that she's "too old". Ivanka is a pessimist

by A cool lookin guy July 24, 2023

Pessimistication

The state of mind of pondering and committing pessimistic activity

Kevin you’re not being real and you’re in pessimistication.

by FayK115 March 11, 2024

Pessimisisme

Pessimisisme is used when someone is being pessimistic.

"Why is your sentence filled with some much pessimisisme?"

by Moffe July 12, 2025

constructive pessimism

Believing one's own work is not good enough or that something in their work is missing, causing them to revise or even restart their work.

A writer had completed five pages of a script before feeling that their story just wasn't good enough, and so constructive pessimism struck them as they searched for that missing oomph.

by joob1 January 11, 2022

Das's Law of Optimism/Pessimism

The glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Get there.

Das's Law of Optimism/Pessimism is derived from something said by George Carlin. It explains that sometimes you expect too much of yourself and it gets you down in life.

by Mindbladeskillyaks June 16, 2010