What is the definition of nihilist?

Answer 1

definition 1 :-

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. Philosophy. 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 initial capital letter) 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.

definition 2 :-

1. Philosophy
2. An extreme form of skepticism that denies all existence.
3. A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
4. Rejection of all distinctions in moral or religious value and a willingness to repudiate all previous theories of morality or religious belief.
5. The belief that destruction of existing political or social institutions is necessary for future improvement.
6. also Nihilism A diffuse, revolutionary movement of mid 19th-century Russia that scorned authority and tradition and believed in reason, materialism, and radical change in society and government through terrorism and assassination.
7. Psychiatry A delusion, experienced in some mental disorders, that the world or one's mind, body, or self does not exist.

definition 3 :-

1. someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief 2. an advocate of anarchism [syn: anarchist]

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