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Nihilism   /nˈaɪəlˌɪzəm/   Listen
Nihilism

noun
1.
A revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake.
2.
The delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal.  Synonym: nihilistic delusion.
3.
Complete denial of all established authority and institutions.





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"Nihilism" Quotes from Famous Books



... lamented the absence from society of a machinery for facilitating the descent of incapacity. "Administrative Nihilism." Collected ...
— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley
... speculation of the eighteenth century appeared the storm and stress of romanticism and sentimentalism. The extremes of morbid personal emotion were thought serviceable for daily life, while the middle course of applying ideals to experience was utterly abandoned. The latest nihilism differs little from the conception of the perfect regeneration of mankind by discarding the old merely because it was old which triumphed in the latter half of the eighteenth century among philosophers and wits. To be sure, ...
— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. I. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane


Words linked to "Nihilism" :   nihilistic, doctrine, philosophical system, anarchy, philosophy, nihilistic delusion, psychotic belief, nihilist, lawlessness, ism, delusion, school of thought


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