negativism
noun
neg·a·tiv·ism
ˈne-gə-ti-ˌvi-zəm
1
: an attitude of mind marked by skepticism especially about nearly everything affirmed by others
2
: a tendency to refuse to do, to do the opposite of, or to do something at variance with what is asked
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