1.RPthe belief that nothing has any meaning or value 虚无主义〔认为一切都没有意义或价值〕
2.RPPPPthe idea that all social and political institutions should be destroyed 政治虚无主义〔主张摧毁一切社会和政治机构的思想〕
—nihilist noun [countableC]
—nihilistic /ˌnaɪəˈlɪstɪk◂/adjectiveadj
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nihilism• If we are to go beyondnihilism we shall have to devise a strategy to examine this.• The implicitnihilism and aggression are global.• Fitzgerald understood Khayyam's nihilism and his rage.• Karl is a serious musician who missed out on the nihilism of the Seventies punk and largely retained Sixties hippy values.• Unfortunately this diagnosis is often used non-specifically; it also tends to promote a sense of therapeuticnihilism.• But the problem with this type of creation-as-destruction is that the negativeaspect is easily equated with nihilism.
Originnihilism
(1800-1900)Germannihilismus, from Latinnihil“nothing”