nihilistic

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ni·hil·ism

(nī′ə-lĭz′əm, nē′-)

1. Philosophy The doctrine that nothing actually exists or that existence or values are meaningless.

2. Relentless negativity or cynicism suggesting an absence of values or beliefs: nihilism in postwar art.

a. Political belief or action that advocates or commits violence or terrorism without discernible constructive goals.

b. also Nihilism A diffuse, revolutionary movement of mid-19th-century Russia that scorned authority and tradition and believed in reason, materialism, and radical change in society and government through terrorism and assassination.

4. Psychiatry A delusion, experienced in some mental disorders, that the world or one's mind, body, or self does not exist.

[Latin nihil, nothing; see ne in Indo-European roots + -ism.]

ni′hil·ist n.

ni′hil·is′tic adj.

ni′hil·is′ti·cal·ly adv.

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Adj.

nihilistic - of or relating to nihilism

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nihilistic

[ˌnaɪɪˈlɪstɪk] ADJ → nihilista

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

nihilistic

[ˌnaɪɪˈlɪstɪk] adj [person, tendencies] → nihiliste

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

nihilistic

adj → nihilistisch

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

nihilistic

[ˌnaɪɪlˈɪstɪk] adj → nichilista

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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