Definitions for Nihilism

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Nihilism ni·hil·ism

Spelling: [nahy-uh-liz-uh m, nee-]

IPA: /ˈnaɪ əˌlɪz əm, ˈni-/

Nihilism is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in Nihilism (hiiilmns).

Definitions for Nihilism

noun

1. total rejection of established laws and institutions.
2. anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity.
3. total and absolute destructiveness, especially toward the world at large and including oneself:
4. Philosophy. an extreme form of skepticism: the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth. nothingness or nonexistence.
5. (sometimes initial capital letter) the principles of a Russian revolutionary group, active in the latter half of the 19th century, holding that existing social and political institutions must be destroyed in order to clear the way for a new state of society and employing extreme measures, including terrorism and assassination.
6. annihilation of the self, or the individual consciousness, especially as an aspect of mystical experience.

Origin of Nihilism

1810-20; Latin nihil nothing (variant of nihilum; see nil) + -ism

Examples for Nihilism

I think with that generation, so many of their hopes have been so dashed that nihilism is really a natural response.

Or better, and to speak like Nietzsche, art with a hammer that practices, and then reverses and reevaluates, nihilism.

And once we are driven right on to nihilism we may find a way through.

To understand better the nihilism of Thiessen's thinking, I must now quote his column at greater length.

It’s arguably the best film of the ‘90s—a postmodern pop culture smorgasbord awash in nihilism and dripping with retro cool.

A period of reaction has set in: Despotism and nihilism meet face to face.

All (p. 249) these years Alexander had battled with nihilism and revolution.

nihilism is well named, for it means nothing and it ends in nothing.

Journey to the End of the Night does not offer readers much more than nihilism as a response to a detestable world.

nihilism was not to be rooted out by the removal of any particular set of men.