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NEGATIVISM
Definition of NEGATIVISM
noun
A persistent pessimistic or skeptical attitude.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From negative + -ism.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
NEGATIVISM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 55, 14 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 47 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 55, 14 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NEGATIVISM starts with N and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AEGIIMNSTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start NEGATI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 55
Could you have found NEGATIVISM?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 55 - and most players walked straight past it.
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