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1. (n.) nihilism
total rejection of established laws and institutions.
2. nihilism
anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity.
3. nihilism
the belief that all existence is senseless and that there is no possibility of an objective basis for truth.
4. nihilism
nothingness or nonexistence.
5. nihilism
(cap.) a 19th-century Russian political philosophy advocating the violent destruction of social and political institutions to make way for a new society.
Etymology: (1810–20; < L nihil nothing (var. of nihilum; see nil ) + -ism)
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| Definition of 'Nihilism' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) nihilism
a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake
2. (noun) nihilistic delusion, nihilism
the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal
3. (noun) nihilism
complete denial of all established authority and institutions
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Nihilism
nothingness; nihility
2. (noun) Nihilism
the doctrine that nothing can be known; scepticism as to all knowledge and all reality
3. (noun) Nihilism
the theories and practices of the Nihilists
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| Definitions of 'Nihilism' |
The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. Nihilism
the principles of a movement on the part of the educated classes in Russia which repudiates the existing creed and organisation of society, and insists on a root and branch wholesale abolition of them and a reconstruction of them on communistic principles, and for the purely secular and everyday ends of common life, subordinating everything in the first place to the feeding, clothing, and lodging of human beings in a manner worthy of their rank in the scale of being. The term Nihilism is also applied to those philosophical systems which sweep the course clear of all incredibilities and irrationalities, but leave us bare of all our inherited spiritual possessions.
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