Meaning of NIHILISM
| Pronunciation: | | n'Iul`izum
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | nihilistic delusion |
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| | See Also: | | anarchy, delusion, doctrine, ism, lawlessness, philosophy, psychotic belief, school of thought | |
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| | Definition: | | Nihilism
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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