Annihilationism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The Christian doctrine that sinners are permanently destroyed. uncountable
  2. 2
    Advocacy of, or a policy of, annihilating a certain (racial, religious, etc) group; eliminationism. uncountable

    "If genocide and, hence, the Holocaust in particular, are to be better understood, then the roots of annihilationism—the origins of ultra-extreme intolerance—need to be explored."

Synonyms

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eliminationism

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"If genocide and, hence, the Holocaust in particular, are to be better understood, then the roots of annihilationism—the origins of ultra-extreme intolerance—need to be explored."

Etymology

From annihilation + -ism.

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