nihilist
pronunciation
How to pronounce nihilist in British English:
UK [ˈnaɪɪlɪst]
How to pronounce nihilist in American English:
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- Noun:
- someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief
- an advocate of anarchism
Word Origin
- nihilist (n.)
- 1836 in the religious or philosophical sense, from French nihiliste, from Latin nihil (see nihilism). In the Russian political sense, it is recorded from 1871. Related: Nihilistic.
Example
- 1. Every definition of man based on happiness is nihilist .
- 2. The germans were trouble because they needed a nanny and they had got a nihilist .
- 3. " He 's a loner nihilist who believes in nothing , " mr. lu said .
- 4. I am convinced that mises would have considered lachmann ( an institutionalist , nihilist , and keynesian ) an " anti-economist , " and he would have been right .
- 5. Such nihilist and anarchist ideas are neither practical nor are they conducive to the progress of the human race .