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How to pronounce nihilist in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms anarchist, syndicalist
Type of radical
Derivation nihilism
Type Words
Type of nonreligious person
Derivation nihilism

Examples of nihilist

nihilist
A pure postmodern nihilist, if one exists, is not likely to fight for anything.
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I feel that this nihilist philosophy may the poor Tibetan Buddhists cannon fodder.
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It is fashionable now to dismiss Tiananmen as a reckless, nihilist uprising.
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If I were a nihilist or strict individualist, this would be a natural move.
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It is here that Kolya first meets Alyosha and begins to reassess his nihilist beliefs.
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The content of Palahniuk's works has earned him a reputation as a nihilist.
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She's a punk nihilist in one chapter, an embittered young wife in another.
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It also led to him being seen as a nihilist, which hurt more than it probably should have.
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Derrida, who died of cancer in 2004 urging his friends to affirm life, was no nihilist.
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More examples
  • Someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief
  • Anarchist: an advocate of anarchism
  • (nihilistic) of or relating to nihilism
  • (nihilism) a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake
  • (nihilism) nihilistic delusion: the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal
  • (nihilism) complete denial of all established authority and institutions
  • Nihilist was a Swedish Scandinavian death metal band formed in 1987 by Nicke Andersson and Alex Hellid.
  • Nihilism (or ; from the Latin nihil, nothing) is the philosophical doctrine suggesting the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life. ...
  • A person who accepts or champions nihilism; An absolute skeptic; a person who believes in the truth of nothing