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Definition of *cynic* 1 : a person who has negative opinions about other people and about the things people do; *especially* : a person who believes that people are selfish and are only interested in helping themselves
*2* : a faultfinding captious critic; *especially* : one who believes that human conduct is motivated wholly by self-interest A cynic is someone who has an aversion to the truth or for the truth. A cynic does not want to know or see the truth. He sees or insists to see something other than what is actually being said or done. He argues right to be wrong and wrong to be right, good to be bad and bad to be good, true to be false and false to be true. He refuses to see, realize or understand that people can have positive or unselfish motives. Cynicism if you really think about it, is in fact a form of insanity, a form of psychosis. *Psychosis: * 1. a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. 2. a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. 3. a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that a person cannot discern between right and wrong, good and bad, and true and false. 4. A mental disorder that sees wrong where there is right, bad where there is good, false where there is truth, or vice versa. 2. In the general sense, a mental illness that markedly interferes with a person's capacity to meet life's everyday demands. In a specific sense, it refers to a thought disorder in which reality evaluation is severely impaired. The person is unable to interpret situations accurately and solve problems effectively. A mental condition that causes a person to do everything wrong or screw up everything. Like a computer that gives wrong answers.
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