"nihilism" in the noun sense
1. nihilism
a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake
2. nihilistic delusion, nihilism
the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist a sense that everything is unreal
3. nihilism
complete denial of all established authority and institutions
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