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nihilism
[ nahy-uh-liz-uhm, nee- ]
noun
- total rejection of established laws and institutions.
- anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity.
- total and absolute destructiveness, especially toward the world at large and including oneself:
the power-mad nihilism that marked Hitler's last years.
- Philosophy.
- an extreme form of skepticism: the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth.
- nothingness or nonexistence.
- (sometimes initial capital letter) the principles of a Russian revolutionary group, active in the latter half of the 19th century, holding that existing social and political institutions must be destroyed in order to clear the way for a new state of society and employing extreme measures, including terrorism and assassination.
- annihilation of the self, or the individual consciousness, especially as an aspect of mystical experience.
Nihilism
1/ ˈԲɪɪˌɪə /
noun
- (in tsarist Russia) any of several revolutionary doctrines that upheld terrorism
nihilism
2/ ˈԲɪɪˌɪə /
noun
- a complete denial of all established authority and institutions
- philosophy an extreme form of scepticism that systematically rejects all values, belief in existence, the possibility of communication, etc
- a revolutionary doctrine of destruction for its own sake
- the practice or promulgation of terrorism
nihilism
- An approach to philosophy that holds that human life is meaningless and that all religions, laws, moral codes, and political systems are thoroughly empty and false. The term is from the Latin nihil , meaning “nothing.”
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Derived Forms
- ˈԾ, nounadjective
- ˌԾˈپ, adjective
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Other 51Թ Forms
- Ծh· noun adjective
- Ծh·t adjective
- t·Ծh· noun
- anti·Ծh· noun adjective
- ԴDz·Ծh· noun
- non·Ծh· noun
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51Թ History and Origins
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of nihilism1
C19: from Latin nihil nothing + -ism , on the model of German Nihilismus
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Where will we be after four years of this destructive revolution of nihilism?
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You describe the modern right as motivated by "reactionary nihilism."
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Like, they just have this kind of nihilism.
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It's hard for me to look back on 2024 without feeling nihilism — nothing mattered.
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And Rundell maintains that there are things we can still do to save these magical, breathtaking creatures: Vote, invest carefully, protest, educate, consume less, refuse to give in to “half-baked nihilism.”
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