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Nihilism

Nihilism Meaning & Definition
Nihilism Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Nihilism?

[n] a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake
[n] complete denial of all established authority and institutions
[n] the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal

Synonyms | Synonyms for Nihilism: nihilistic delusion

Related Terms | Find terms related to Nihilism: agnosia | anarchism | anarcho-syndicalism | anarchy | antinomianism | block | blocking | chaos | confusion | criminal syndicalism | cynicism | defeatism | delirium | delusion | delusion of persecution | dismalness | disorder | disorderliness | disorganization | disorientation | disruption | extreme left | extreme left wing | extremism | flight of ideas | gloominess | gloomy outlook | hallucination | hallucinosis | Jacobinism | left-wing extremism | lynch law | malism | mental block | mental confusion | misrule | mob law | mob rule | mobocracy | negativism | New Left | nihilistic delusion | ochlocracy | Old Left | paralogia | pessimism | primal chaos | psychological block | radicalism | radicalization | rebellion | retreatism | revolution | revolutionism | sans-culotterie | sans-culottism | syndicalism | tohubohu | turmoil | ultraconservatism | ultraism | uncheerfulness | unruliness

See Also | anarchy | delusion | doctrine | ism | lawlessness | philosophy | psychotic belief | school of thought

Nihilism In Webster's Dictionary

\Ni"hil*ism\, n. [L. nihil nothing: cf. F. nihilisme. See {Annihilate}.] 1. Nothingness; nihility. 2. The doctrine that nothing can be known; scepticism as to all knowledge and all reality. 3. (Politics) The theories and practices of the Nihilists.

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