noun, masculine/de.fɛ.tism/
defeatism
Coined in 1915 by Russian writer Grigorij Aleksinskij as a calque of Russian пораженчество (poraženčestvo), also coined by him as a derivation of поразить (porazitʹ, “to strike, defeat”). By surface analysis, défaite (“defeat”) + -isme (“-ism”).