nihilism
see also: Nihilism
Pronunciation Noun
Nihilism
Pronunciation Proper noun
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see also: Nihilism
Pronunciation Noun
nihilism
- The view#Noun|view that all endeavours are devoid of objective#Adjective|objective meaning#Noun|meaning.
- 1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, London: Methuen & Co., […], published 1907, OCLC 270548466 ↗; The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907, OCLC 1107573959 ↗, page 15 ↗:
- But there was also about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: [...] the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses; [...]
- The rejection of, or opposition to, religious beliefs, (inherent or objective) moral principles, legal rule#Noun|rules, etc., often due to the view that life is meaningless (sense 1).
- (philosophy) A doctrine ground#Verb|grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life; in particular, the view that nothing in the world actually exists.
- (politics) The rejection of non-proven or non-rationalized assertions in the social and political spheres of society.
- (psychiatry) A delusion that oneself or the world, or part#Noun|parts thereof, have ceased to exist.
- (Russia, politics, historical) Alternative letter-case form of Nihilism#English|Nihilism (“a Russian#Adjective|Russian movement of the 1860s that reject#Verb|rejected all authority and promoted the use#Noun|use of violence for political change#Noun|change”)
- annihilate
- nihilarian
- nihilate
- nihilation
- nihileity (obsolete, rare)
- nihilhood (obsolete, rare)
- Nihilianism
- nihilification (rare)
- nihilist
- nihilistic
- nihilistically
- nihility
- nihil obstat
- nil
- French: nihilisme
- German: Nihilismus
- Italian: nichilismo
- Portuguese: niilismo
- Russian: нигили́зм
- French: nihilisme
- German: Nihilismus
- Italian: nichilismo
- Portuguese: niilismo
- Russian: нигили́зм
- Spanish: nihilismo
Nihilism
Pronunciation Proper noun
- (Russia, politics, historical) A movement of the 1860s that reject#Verb|rejected all authority and promoted the use#Noun|use of violence for political change#Noun|change.
- French: nihilisme
- Russian: нигили́зм
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