Usually means: Rejection of all religious, moral beliefs.
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  1. nihilism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nihilism: Merriam-Webster
  3. nihilism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nihilism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nihilism: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nihilism: Vocabulary.com
  7. Nihilism, nihilism: Wordnik
  8. nihilism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. nihilism: Wiktionary
  10. nihilism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. nihilism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. nihilism: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. nihilism: Dictionary.com
  14. nihilism: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Nihilism (disambiguation), Nihilism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Nihilism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nihilism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. nihilism: Rhymezone
  19. Nihilism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nihilism: FreeDictionary.org
  21. nihilism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. nihilism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. nihilism: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. nihilism: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. Nihilism: Eastern Philosophy
  3. The Ism Book (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nihilism: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nihilism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. nihilism: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. nihilism: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  3. Nihilism: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  4. nihilism: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nihilism: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (usually uncountable) The view that all endeavours are devoid of objective meaning.
noun:  (usually uncountable) The rejection of, or opposition to, religious beliefs, (inherent or objective) moral principles, legal rules, etc., often due to the view that life is meaningless (sense 1).
noun:  (usually uncountable, politics) The rejection of non-proven or non-rationalized assertions in the social and political spheres of society.
noun:  (uncountable, psychiatry) A delusion that oneself or the world, or parts thereof, have ceased to exist.
noun:  (countable, uncountable, philosophy) A doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life; in particular, the view that nothing in the world actually exists.
noun:  (countable) Something that is regarded as meaningless.
noun:  (Russia, politics, historical) A movement of the 1860s that rejected all authority and promoted the use of violence for political change.
noun:  (uncountable, Russia, politics, historical) Alternative letter-case form of Nihilism (“a Russian movement of the 1860s that rejected all authority and promoted the use of violence for political change”) [(Russia, politics, historical) A movement of the 1860s that rejected all authority and promoted the use of violence for political change.]

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