I question the intrinsic value of nihilism.
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Nihilism
/ˈnaɪ.(h)ɪ.lɪz.m̩/
Synonyms for "nihilism" (72 found)
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delusion of persecutiondismalnessdisorderdisorderlinessdisorganizationdisorientationdisruptionextreme leftextreme left wingextremismflight of ideasgloominessgloomy outlookhallucinationhallucinosisjacobinismleft-wing extremism
Noun(4 words)
Related words (36)
lynch lawmalismmental blockmental confusionmisrulemob lawmob rulemobocracynegativismnew leftnihilistic delusionochlocracyold leftparalogiapessimismprimal chaospsychological blockradicalismradicalizationrebellion
Noun(4 words)
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16 entriesanarchismanarchydelusiondoctrineethicsismlawlessnessmetaphysical doctrinemetaphysical theorymoral theoryphilosophical positionphilosophical systemphilosophypolitical theorypsychotic beliefschool of thought
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8 entriesanarchistic nihilismaxiological nihilismcosmic nihilismepistemic nihilismexistential nihilismmoral nihilismnormative nihilismpolitical nihilism
Collocations
6 entriesexistential nihilismmoral nihilismnihilism in philosophynihilism movementphilosophical nihilismpolitical nihilism
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Telogreykin said the main idea of this community is not to tease police, as some may think. He said the community simply wants to rid the country of the legal nihilism that is the root of the problem.
Source: tatoeba (12229721)
This classification should have led to the discovery and study of remedies which act specifically upon the various textures and tissues of the body, such as the cellular, serous, mucous, parenchymatous, fibrous, gelatinous, &c., but it did not, except in the most imperfect manner—so imperfect, in fact, that most pathologists, despairing of finding such remedies, at one time sank into all the peurilities^([sic – meaning puerilities]) of the "expectant mode" of the French, or the nihilisms of the German.
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But there was also about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: [...] the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses; [...]
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