'Nihilism' definitions:
Definition of 'nihilism'
(from WordNet)
noun
A revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake
noun
The delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal [syn: nihilistic delusion, nihilism]
noun
Complete denial of all established authority and institutions
Definition of 'Nihilism'
From: GCIDE
- Nihilism \Ni"hil*ism\, n. [L. nihil nothing: cf. F. nihilisme. See Annihilate.]
- 1. Nothingness; nihility. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The doctrine that nothing can be known; scepticism as to all knowledge and all reality. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Politics) The theories and practices of the Nihilists. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'nihilism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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