Pessimism

Quality:

Pessimism - mental attitude and philosophical position that dwells on the dark or gloomy side of things, the world or the universe, culminating in a sense of their vanity and nothingness that is sometimes thought to render them unworthy of existence. Article “Pessimism” in Simple English Wikipedia has 2.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Pessimism”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1434 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 41 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5491 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #451 in November 2008
• Global: #2965 in December 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3744 in September 2014
• Global: #9957 in May 2013

There are 48 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 悲观主义		91.2974
2	English (en) Pessimism		65.3666
3	Portuguese (pt) Pessimismo		55.3775
4	Hindi (hi) निराशावाद		54.4635
5	Italian (it) Pessimismo		37.3648
6	Spanish (es) Pesimismo		36.7783
7	Russian (ru) Пессимизм		35.23
8	French (fr) Pessimisme		33.3029
9	Estonian (et) Pessimism		27.8505
10	Serbian (sr) Песимизам		27.655

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pessimism		5 135 066
2	Russian (ru) Пессимизм		1 413 057
3	Japanese (ja) 悲観主義		1 387 643
4	Spanish (es) Pesimismo		1 244 054
5	German (de) Pessimismus		978 492
6	French (fr) Pessimisme		712 439
7	Polish (pl) Pesymizm		631 443
8	Portuguese (pt) Pessimismo		575 981
9	Italian (it) Pessimismo		287 648
10	Korean (ko) 염세주의		255 675

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pessimism		6 942
2	Japanese (ja) 悲観主義		3 846
3	Russian (ru) Пессимизм		2 488
4	Korean (ko) 염세주의		1 575
5	Spanish (es) Pesimismo		1 560
6	Chinese (zh) 悲观主义		1 199
7	French (fr) Pessimisme		731
8	German (de) Pessimismus		679
9	Italian (it) Pessimismo		678
10	Portuguese (pt) Pessimismo		674

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pessimism		366
2	German (de) Pessimismus		117
3	French (fr) Pessimisme		87
4	Russian (ru) Пессимизм		76
5	Italian (it) Pessimismo		68
6	Dutch (nl) Pessimisme		66
7	Spanish (es) Pesimismo		62
8	Japanese (ja) 悲観主義		50
9	Hebrew (he) פסימיות		43
10	Finnish (fi) Pessimismi		34

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pessimism		2
2	Italian (it) Pessimismo		1
3	Arabic (ar) تشاؤم		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Pessimizm		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Песимизъм		0
6	Catalan (ca) Pessimisme		0
7	Czech (cs) Pesimismus		0
8	German (de) Pessimismus		0
9	Greek (el) Απαισιοδοξία		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Pesimismo		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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