What is "nihilation"

Usage examples of "nihilation".

They were a source of what Peter Berger calls nihilation, which, as I view it, is any threat to the cultural translation process of generating meaning and its correlative form of social integration and stability.

Voices, commands, laughter: for an hour activity prevailed in the nihilation area, while the target plane flew over the city again from the sea side, slipped away from the searchlights, and, caught again, became a Platonic target: The Number 6 manned the fuze setter, trying with cranks to make two mechanical pointers coincide with two electrical pointers and unflinchingly nihilating the evasive essent.

Without map through Todtnau and Cry-of-Anguish -- such are the names of the places around here -- to Care, Overclimb, Nihilation.

And, as Berger points out, nihilation needs to be countered with therapia, or a dislodging of the source of nihilation.

Voices, commands, laughter: for an hour activity prevailed in the nihilation area, while the target plane flew over the city again from the sea side, slipped away from the searchlights, and, caught again, became a Platonic target: The Number 6 manned the fuze setter, trying with cranks to make two mechanical pointers coincide with two electrical pointers and unflinchingly nihilating the evasive essent.