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declinist
adjective
uk /dɪˈklaɪ.nɪst/ us /dɪˈklaɪ.nɪst/
relating to a belief that everything is gradually becoming less, worse, or lower:
Mine is much more reformist than a declinist ideology.
Her argument is broadly declinist in character.
She is confronting the declinist assumptions of much writing on the history of the British aristocracy.
Many of the declinist arguments which led to the ministry's foundation were undermined by experience.
Declinist critics attack him for not offering a better defence of the artists he represents.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Deteriorating and making worse
add
admin
aggravate
backslide
be downhillidiom
debase
deterioration
devaluation
devalue
disintegrate
dog
downgrade
regress
regression
regressive
regressively
retrograde
wear thinidiom
worse
worsen
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