Meaning of NIHILIST
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- [n] an advocate of anarchism
- [n] someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief
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| | Synonyms: | | anarchist, syndicalist |
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| | 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 | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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