A revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake.

Roget 2: inexistence^†; nonexistence, nonsubsistence; nonentity, nil; negativeness etc. adj.; nullity; nihility^†, nihilism; tabula rasa [Lat.], blank; abeyance; absence etc. 187; no such thing etc. 4; nonbeing, nothingness, oblivion.    annihilation; extinction etc. (destruction) 162; extinguishment, extirpation, Nirvana, obliteration.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 738: laxity; laxness, looseness, slackness; toleration etc. (lenity) 740; freedom etc. 748.    anarchy, interregnum; relaxation; loosening etc. v.; remission; dead letter, brutum fulmen [Lat.], misrule; license, licentiousness; insubordination etc. (disobedience) 742; lynch law etc. (illegality) 964; nihilism, reign of violence.    [Deprivation of power] dethronement, deposition, usurpation, abdication.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 989: irreligion^†, indevotion^†; godlessness, ungodliness etc. adj.; laxity, quietism.    skepticism, doubt; unbelief, disbelief; incredulity, incredulousness etc. adj.^†; want of faith, want of belief; pyrrhonism; bout etc. 485; agnosticism.    atheism; deism; hylotheism^†; materialism; positivism; nihilism.    infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity^†, rationalism; neology.    [person who is not religious] atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist; giaour^†, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene; espri fort [Fr.], freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist; materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist^†, theophobist^†.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: Nihilisme, nihilisme
Pools: nihilizm

The delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal.

synoniem: nihilistic delusion.

Complete denial of all established authority and institutions.

Pools: nihilizm