cynicism

Etymology
From Cynicism, ; compare.

Noun

 * 1)  A distrustful attitude.
 * 2)  An emotion of jaded negativity, or a general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of other people. Cynicism can manifest itself by frustration, disillusionment and distrust in regard to organizations, authorities and other aspects of society, often due to previous bad experience. Cynics often view others as motivated solely by disguised self-interest.
 * 3)  A skeptical, scornful or pessimistic comment or act.

Derived terms

 * legal cynicism

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: цыні́зм
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: cinisme
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kynisme
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: cinikismo
 * Estonian: künism
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ცინიზმი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, キニク主義, シニシズム, , 冷笑主義
 * Korean:, , 냉소주의(冷笑主義), 랭소주의(冷笑主義)
 * Latvian: cinisms
 * Lithuanian: cinizmas
 * Macedonian: цини́зам
 * Malay: sinisme, sinisisme
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kynisme
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: цинѝзам
 * Roma:
 * Sicilian: cinìsimu
 * Slovak: cynizmus
 * Slovene: cinizem
 * Spanish:
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 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: