Kulturpessimismus
German, noun/kʊlˈtuːɐ̯pɛsiˌmɪsmʊs/
Kulturpessimismus is spelled K-U-L-T-U-R-P-E-S-S-I-M-I-S-M-U-S (17 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written German, the 189,851st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kulturpessimismus is a German masculine noun meaning “cultural pessimism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “ablehnende Haltung gegenüber kulturellen Erscheinungen und Tendenzen, da sie als Zeichen des Verfalls…”.
What does Kulturpessimismus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecultural pessimism
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ablehnende Haltung gegenüber kulturellen Erscheinungen und Tendenzen, da sie als Zeichen des Verfalls verstanden werden
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce Kulturpessimismus?
- /kʊlˈtuːɐ̯pɛsiˌmɪsmʊs/
- [kʊlˈtuːɐ̯pɛsiˌmɪsmʊs]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Kulturpessimismus in German?
Kulturpessimismus appears about once in every 12 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).