<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>The tendency to see, anticipate, or emphasize only bad or undesirable outcomes, results, conditions, problems, etc.</li><li>The doctrine that the existing world is the worst of all possible worlds, or that all things naturally tend to evil.</li><li>The belief that the evil and pain in the world are not compensated for by goodness and happiness.</li></ul>