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Definition of Nihilist

Nihilist
Nihilist Ni"hil*ist, n. [Cf. F. nihiliste. See Nihilism.] 1. One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist. 2. (Politics) A member of a secret association (esp. in Russia), which is devoted to the destruction of the present political, religious, and social institutions.

Meaning of Nihilist from wikipedia

- existence, namely knowledge, morality, or meaning. There have been different nihilist positions, including that human values are baseless, that life is meaningless...
- Look up Nihilist or nihilist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A nihilist is person who subscribes to nihilism, the belief that existence has no objective...
- The Russian nihilist movement was a philosophical, cultural, and revolutionary movement in the Russian Empire during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
- Vera; or, The Nihilists is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. It was Wilde's first...
- Nihilist Recordings is a record label that releases noise music albums, and is similar to labels like Load Records and Hanson Records, though it tends...
- history of cryptography, the Nihilist cipher is a manually operated symmetric encryption cipher, originally used by Russian Nihilists in the 1880s to organize...
- Nihilist was a Swedish death metal band formed in 1987 by Nicke Andersson and Alex ****id. The band split up in 1989 when Johnny Hedlund left to form Unleashed...
- particularly situations contesting nihilist perspectives on the nature and extent of subjectivity within a nihilist framework. There are a number of variations...
- claims which are false; practical nihilists claim that there are no reasons for action of any kind; some nihilists extend this claim to include reasons...
- During the Renaissance, William Shakespeare summarised the existential nihilist's perspective through Macbeth's mindset in the end of the eponymous play...