Nihilism defined

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nihilism

ˈnʌɪ(h)ɪlɪz(ə)m/
noun
  1. the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless.
    synonyms: negativity, cynicism, pessimism;

    rejection, repudiation, renunciation, denial, abnegation;
    disbelief, non-belief, unbelief, scepticism, lack of conviction, absence of moral values, agnosticism, atheism, non-theism
    “he could not accept Bacon’s nihilism, his insistence that man is a futile being”
    • PHILOSOPHY
      the belief that nothing in the world has a real existence.
    • historical
      the doctrine of an extreme Russian revolutionary party c. 1900 which found nothing to approve of in the established social order.
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