nihilism
ˈnʌɪ(h)ɪlɪz(ə)m/
noun
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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”-
PHILOSOPHYthe belief that nothing in the world has a real existence.
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historicalthe doctrine of an extreme Russian revolutionary party c. 1900 which found nothing to approve of in the established social order.
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