Cynic:
1. A person who believes all people are motivated by selfishness.
2. A person whose outlook is scornfully and often habitually negative.
3. Cynic A member of a sect of ancient Greek philosophers who believed virtue to be the only good and self-control to be the only means of achieving virtue.
Noun:
1. A person who expects only the worst from people
Adjective:
1. Marked by or displaying contemptuous mockery of the motives or virtues of others
Antonyms: cynic
1. Definition: nonbeliever
Antonyms: believer, optimist
Cynicism:
1. An attitude of scornful or jaded negativity, especially a general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of others: the public cynicism aroused by governmental scandals.
2. A scornfully or jadedly negative comment or act: “She arrived at a philosophy of her own, all made up of her private notations and cynicisms” (Henry James).
3. Cynicism The beliefs of the ancient Cynics.
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Us with BPD...are we natural cynics? Or when BPD starts manifesting in us...does it start cynicism...intensify preexisting cynicism. I myself...am a cynic...Cynicism based in the search for the "elusive truth". Footed in the foundation of optimism. I am not a yes man...I do not like coloring in the box...I readily get criticised for being cynical...& my responce is "F*ck you, if you can't take a joke & let's discuss it & come up with a mutual solution." I believe cynicism is a bi-product of BPD. But how one shapes, refines & uses cynicism comes down to a person choice ...with a personal style. How about you...are you a member of the ancient Cynics or the person people try to avoid or the person that people respect?...Joe Buck (Bob)
