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Misses out with Independent probing leader's negative world view (9)

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I believe the answer is:

pessimism

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'negative world view' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.

'misses out with independent probing leader's' is the wordplay.
'out with' is an anagram indicator (out can mean wrong or inaccurate).
'independent' becomes 'i'.
'probing' indicates putting letters inside (probe can mean to poke or prod into).
'leader' becomes 'pm' (PM is an example).
'misses' with its letters mixed up with 'i' gives 'essimis'.
'essimis' inserted inside 'pm' is 'PESSIMISM'.

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(Other definitions for pessimism that I've seen before include "General disposition to expect the worst" , "Disposition to always see the glass as half-empty rather than half-full" , "The feeling that things will turn out badly" , "Tendency to take a gloomy view of things" , "Gloomy view of life" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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