nihilism
/ˈnaɪɪlɪzəm/noun
mass noun
1- the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless虚无主义。
1.1
- Philosophy extreme scepticism maintaining that nothing in the world has a real existence【哲】虚无主义, 极端怀疑论。
1.2
- historical the doctrine of an extreme Russian revolutionary party (c.1900) which found nothing to approve of in the established social order〈史〉民粹主义。
派生词
nihilist
nounnihilistic
adjective词源
early 19th cent.: from Latin nihil 'nothing' + -ISM.