Annihilate vs. Nihilism

Annihilateverb

To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.

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(particle physics) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation.

Annihilateverb

(archaic) To treat as worthless, to vilify.

Annihilateverb

(transitive) To render null and void; to abrogate.

Annihilateverb

To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be.

Annihilateverb

To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees.

Annihilateverb

To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness.

Annihilateadjective

Annihilated.

Annihilateverb

kill in large numbers;

Nihilismnoun

(philosophy) A philosophical doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life.

Nihilismnoun

(ethics) The rejection of inherent or objective moral principles.

Nihilismnoun

(politics) The rejection of non-rationalized or non-proven assertions in the social and political spheres of society.

Nihilismnoun

A Russian movement of the 1860s that rejected all authority and promoted the use of violence for political change.

Nihilismnoun

The understanding that all endeavors are devoid of objective meaning.

Nihilismnoun

The refusal of belief, that belief itself is untenable.

Nihilismnoun

Nothingness; nihility.

Nihilismnoun

The doctrine that nothing can be known; scepticism as to all knowledge and all reality.

Nihilismnoun

The theories and practices of the Nihilists.

Nihilismnoun

a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake

Nihilismnoun

the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal

Nihilismnoun

complete denial of all established authority and institutions

Nihilism

Nihilism (; from Latin nihil 'nothing') is a philosophy, or family of views within philosophy, expressing negation (i.e., denial of) towards general aspects of life that are widely accepted within humanity as objectively real, such as knowledge, existence, and the meaning of life. Different nihilist positions hold variously that human values are baseless, that life is meaningless, that knowledge is impossible, or that some set of entities do not exist, are meaningless, or pointless.The study of nihilism may regard it as merely a label that has been applied to various separate philosophies, or as a distinct historical concept arising out of nominalism, skepticism, and philosophical pessimism, as well as possibly out of Christianity itself.