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单词 nihilism
释义 nihilism
 —nihilist,  n.  ,  adj.   —nihilistic,  adj.  
 /nuy"euh liz'euhm, nee"-/,  n.  
  1. total rejection of established laws and institutions.
  2. anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity.
  3. total and absolute destructiveness, esp. toward the world at large and including oneself: the power-mad nihilism that marked Hitler's last years.
  4.  Philos.  
   a. an extreme form of skepticism: the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth.
   b. nothingness or nonexistence.
  5. (sometimes cap.) the principles of a Russian revolutionary group, active in the latter half of the 19th century, holding that existing social and political institutions must be destroyed in order to clear the way for a new state of society and employing extreme measures, including terrorism and assassination.
  6. annihilation of the self, or the individual consciousness, esp. as an aspect of mystical experience.
 [1810-20; < L nihil nothing (var. of nihilum; see NIL) + -ISM]
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