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nihilist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nihilist \Ni"hil*ist\, n. [Cf. F. nihiliste. See Nihilism.]
One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist.
(Politics) A member of a secret association (esp. in Russia), which is devoted to the destruction of the present political, religious, and social institutions.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context philosophy religion English) A person who accepts or champions nihilism. 2 An absolute skeptic; a person who believes in the truth of nothing.
WordNet
n. someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief
an advocate of anarchism [syn: anarchist, syndicalist]
Wikipedia
A nihilist is person who believes in nihilism, that existence has no objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value. Nihilist may also refer to:
- Nihilist movement, a Russian political and social movement
:* Nihilist cipher, a cipher used by the movement
- The Nihilist (film)
Nihilist was a Swedish death metal band formed in 1987 by Nicke Andersson and Alex Hellid. The band split-up in 1989 when Johnny Hedlund left to form Unleashed. The remaining members reformed the band under the name Entombed. Nihilist never recorded a full-length album before they renamed as Entombed, but a collection of their demo work was released in 2005. Guitarist Leif "Leffe" Cuzner died in June 2006.
Nicke Andersson admitted in the recent book about the history of death metal and grindcore Choosing Death that after his relationship with Johnny Hedlund had grown ever more acrimonious, he had deliberately split the band up as a means of parting company with him. The last lineup of Nihilist minus Hedlund then reformed under the new name of Entombed, while Hedlund formed his own band Unleashed in reply.
Usage examples of "nihilist".
And you wonder that the little nihilist groups and labor organizations and associations of agnostics, as you call them, meeting to study political economy and philosophy, say that the existing state of things has got to be overturned violently, if those who have the power and the money continue indifferent.
The reporter had a vital reason for seeing her immediately, a vital reason for all concerned, above all in this moment when the Nihilists were culminating their plans, a vital reason for her and for him, equally menaced with death, to talk with her and to renew the propositions he had made a few minutes before the poisoning and which she had not wished to hear him talk about, in fearful pity for him or in defiance of him.
Are we thus simply making a nonsensical nihilist claim when we assert that in the ontology of Empire value is outside measure?
Frenesi and the Pisks had taken over what was left of the Death to the Pig Nihilist Film Kollective, based in Berkeley, a doomed attempt to live out the metaphor of movie camera as weapon.
It was late that night when the Nihilists left the airship, first having made a careful inspection to see that they were not spied upon.
Historians may point out diversities and dissimilarities between the teaching of the Waldenses, the Albigenses, the Henricans, the Poor Men of Lyons, the Cathari, the Vaudois, the Bogomiles, and the Manichees, but they were in reality branches and variants of the same dark fraternity, just as the Third International, the Anarchists, the Nihilists, and the Bolsheviks are in every sense, save the mere label, entirely identical.
The whole shebang: Libertarians, Nihilists, Wobblies, the Anti-Racist Leagueeverybody but those Eurocommunist slobs.
To do this we must align ourselves against subversive elements: nihilist terrorists, the Wobblies in the States, Eurocommunists in Common Europe, even the Anti-Racist League.
Bazarov not only a general iconic image of the Nihilist that immediately passed into use, he created as well an image of the extrascientific implications of physiology.
This labor movement embraced anarchists, Marxian Communists, nihilists, and liberal-capitalistic leaders.
Petersburg, certain progressivists, nihilists, exposers, and so on and so forth, but, like many others, he exaggerated and distorted the meaning and significance of these names to the point of absurdity.
The upper Russia, the Westernized stratum which played with Western materialistic philosophy, spoke German and French, traveled to the spas of Europe, and concerned itself with European cabinet-politics, was the object of the fierce hatred of the pure Russians, the Nihilists, who embodied the wordless idea of complete destruction of the West, and the Russification of the world.
Erast Fandorin longed to say something remarkable to Amalia in parting, something really exceptional, so that she would not remember him as a stupid, frightened little boy but as a valiant warrior who fell in an unequal struggle with a whole army of nihilists.
This had commenced at Moscow after the terrible repression, the massacre of revolutionaries under the walls of Presnia, when the surviving Nihilists left behind them a placard condemning the victorious General Trebassof to death.
The Nihilists warned me immediately that I would not reach Russia alive.