Nihilism

/ˈnaɪ.(h)ɪ.lɪz.m̩/

Synonyms for "nihilism" (72 found)

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Closest matches (15)

Strong matches (21)

delusion of persecutiondismalnessdisorderdisorderlinessdisorganizationdisorientationdisruptionextreme leftextreme left wingextremismflight of ideasgloominessgloomy outlookhallucinationhallucinosisjacobinismleft-wing extremism
Noun(4 words)
emptinessethical nihlismexistential meaninglessnessexistential void

Related words (36)

Noun(4 words)
meaninglessnessmoral nonexistencenihilistic delusionsubversive nihilism

Related word relations

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More general

16 entries
anarchismanarchydelusiondoctrineethicsismlawlessnessmetaphysical doctrinemetaphysical theorymoral theoryphilosophical positionphilosophical systemphilosophypolitical theorypsychotic beliefschool of thought

More specific

8 entries
anarchistic nihilismaxiological nihilismcosmic nihilismepistemic nihilismexistential nihilismmoral nihilismnormative nihilismpolitical nihilism

Collocations

6 entries
existential nihilismmoral nihilismnihilism in philosophynihilism movementphilosophical nihilismpolitical nihilism

Inflections

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Derivations

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Sample sentences

25 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I question the intrinsic value of nihilism.

Source: tatoeba (11043404)

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.

Source: wiktionary

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; [...]

Source: wiktionary

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