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Nihilist

Nihilist Meaning & Definition
Nihilist Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Nihilist?

[n] an advocate of anarchism
[n] someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief

Synonyms | Synonyms for Nihilist: anarchist | syndicalist

Related Terms | Find terms related to Nihilist: anarch | anarchist | anarcho-syndicalist | animal | annihilator | anthropophagite | antinomian | arsonist | barbarian | beast | biblioclast | Bolshevik | bomber | brute | burner | calamity howler | cannibal | Cassandra | cynic | defeatist | demolisher | destroyer | dynamitard | dynamiter | Eeyore | exterminator | extreme left-winger | extremist | hun | hyena | iconoclast | idol breaker | idoloclast | Jacobin | killjoy | left-wing extremist | lunatic fringe | malist | man-eater | mild radical | mutineer | negativist | parlor Bolshevik | parlor pink | pessimist | pink | pinko | prophet of doom | radical | rebel | red | retreatist | revolutionary | revolutionist | ruiner | sans-culotte | savage | seek-sorrow | shark | subversive | syndicalist | terrorist | tiger | ultra | ultraist | vandal | wild man | Wobbly | worrywart | wrecker | yippie

See Also | Bakunin | Bartolomeo Vanzetti | Benjamin Ricketson Tucker | Emma Goldman | Goldman | Kropotkin | Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin | Mikhail Bakunin | Nicola Sacco | nonreligious person | Prince Peter Kropotkin | Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin | radical | Sacco | Tucker | Vanzetti

Nihilist In Webster's Dictionary

\Ni"hil*ist\, n. [Cf. F. nihiliste. See {Nihilism}.] 1. One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist. 2. (Politics) A member of a secret association (esp. in Russia), which is devoted to the destruction of the present political, religious, and social institutions.

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