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UK
/nˈaɪəlˌɪzəm/
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[ US /ˈnaɪəˌɫɪzəm/ ]
[ US /ˈnaɪəˌɫɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- complete denial of all established authority and institutions
- the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal
- a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake
How To Use nihilism In A Sentence
- He has written of the thoroughgoing nihilism of this class: their sense that life has no meaningful shape but is only one thing after another.
- Given the completely negative associations nihilism has for many of us, simply to have it redefined as a theological posture is worth the price of the book.
- Tolkien, a devout Catholic, was a combat veteran of World War I, and acutely sensitive to the murderous nihilism of modern warfare.
- Europe has a similar interest, having suffered, with the train bombings in Madrid, the kind of fanatic nihilism that visited the Twin Towers.
- Now, Obama's election promises revolved, exactly, around the hope of doing away with the objectivization of political life and its corollaries: disenchantment, voter apathy, and nihilism. TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog
- He has lost all faith in nihilism and is a born-again Linux enthusiast.
- The atrocities of the Second World War coupled with developments in genetics, robotics, and space exploration (just to mention a few) are reflected in nihilism and existentialism philosophies, presenting the image of a man as a fluctuant entity, surrounded by relative values, incapable of seeking ultimate truths and haunted by the disintegration of ideologies that once he has held sacred. POSTMODERN LITERATURE:
- Whatever he touches withers in his grasp and sinks from view into a muck of despair, negativism and nihilism.
- Enveloped in duende, the nihilism of Levis's poetry negated beliefs and consolations.
- He is anxious to show that the negativism and nihilism of gang life could be transformed into more positive directions. The Times Literary Supplement