Nihilism – Definition & Example in Real Context

Definition of nihilism with illustration and in authentic context for advanced EFL students and SAT / ACT candidates

/ˈnaɪ.ə.lɪ.zəm/ (noun)

Definition

total rejection of established social mores, principles or conventions particularly morality, nothingness, negativism, cynicism, pessimism, emptiness, denial, atheism, anarchism, agnosticism, skepticism, disbelief

Example

Nihilism is a philosophy, or family of views within philosophy, that rejects general or fundamental aspects of human existence, such as objective truth, knowledge, morality, values or meaning. Different nihilist positions hold variously that human values are baseless, that life is meaningless, that knowledge is impossible, or that some set of entities do not exist or are meaningless or pointless.

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Antonyms

piety, piousness

Parts of speech

Noun: nihilist

Adjective: nihilistic

Adverb: nihilistically