nihilism as a noun: - 1
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nihilism
noun
1 nihilism
A revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake.
Roget 2:
inexistence†;
nonexistence,
nonsubsistence;
nonentity,
nil;
negativeness
etc.
adj.;
nullity;
nihility†,
nihilism;
tabula rasa [Lat.],
blank;
abeyance;
absence
etc.
187;
no such thing
etc.
4;
nonbeing,
nothingness,
oblivion.
annihilation;
extinction
etc.
(destruction)
162;
extinguishment,
extirpation,
Nirvana,
obliteration.
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Roget 738:
laxity;
laxness,
looseness,
slackness;
toleration
etc.
(lenity)
740;
freedom
etc.
748.
anarchy,
interregnum;
relaxation;
loosening
etc.
v.;
remission;
dead letter,
brutum fulmen [Lat.],
misrule;
license,
licentiousness;
insubordination
etc.
(disobedience)
742;
lynch law
etc.
(illegality)
964;
nihilism,
reign of violence.
[Deprivation of power]
dethronement,
deposition,
usurpation,
abdication.
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Roget 989:
irreligion†,
indevotion†;
godlessness,
ungodliness
etc.
adj.;
laxity,
quietism.
skepticism,
doubt;
unbelief,
disbelief;
incredulity,
incredulousness
etc.
adj.†;
want of faith,
want of belief;
pyrrhonism;
bout
etc.
485;
agnosticism.
atheism;
deism;
hylotheism†;
materialism;
positivism;
nihilism.
infidelity,
freethinking,
antichristianity†,
rationalism;
neology.
[person who is not religious]
atheist,
skeptic,
unbeliever,
deist,
infidel,
pyrrhonist;
giaour†,
heathen,
alien,
gentile,
Nazarene;
espri fort [Fr.],
freethinker,
latitudinarian,
rationalist;
materialist,
positivist,
nihilist,
agnostic,
somatist†,
theophobist†.
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Dutch: Nihilisme, nihilisme
Polish: nihilizm
2 nihilism
The delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal.
synonym: nihilistic delusion.
3 nihilism
Complete denial of all established authority and institutions.
Polish: nihilizm
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