Efilism
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An extremist, negative utilitarian pro-mortalist, antinatalist ideology proposed by Gary Mosher which endorses the forced extinction of all life on Earth. uncountable
"They've identified a reference to the ancient Syracusian practice of banishment known as petalism, and what may or may not be a reference to efilism, a branch of the antinatalist philosophical position advanced by Schopenhauer, but what any of that has to do with the lyrics' subsequent allusions to Moby-Dick seems pretty open to question."
Example
More examples"They've identified a reference to the ancient Syracusian practice of banishment known as petalism, and what may or may not be a reference to efilism, a branch of the antinatalist philosophical position advanced by Schopenhauer, but what any of that has to do with the lyrics' subsequent allusions to Moby-Dick seems pretty open to question."
Etymology
From life reversed + -ism.
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