a view that rejects all values and beliefs as meaningless or unfounded
the philosophical view that nothing has real existence; extreme scepticism
(often Nihilism) the doctrine of a 19th-cent. Russian revolutionary party that social conditions are so bad as to make destruction desirable for its own sake
terrorism or anarchy
nihilist noun and adj
nihilistic /-ʹlistik/ adj
[German Nihilismus, from Latin nihil nothing]