Nietzscheism

American  

[nee-chee-iz-uhm] / ˈni tʃiˌɪz əm /

Also Nietzscheanism

noun

1. the philosophy of Nietzsche, emphasizing the will to power as the chief motivating force of both the individual and society.

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Other Word Forms

• Nietzschean
  noun

Etymology

Origin of Nietzscheism

First recorded in 1905–10; Nietzsche + -ism

Example Sentences

What of Richard Strauss, with his warmed-over Nietzscheism, his flair for the merely horrible?

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

Note the successes we have arranged in Darwinism, Marxism, and Nietzscheism.

From The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem by Ford, Henry

I snap my fingers at Nietzscheism when I realize that she is the strongest personality in my little world.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

Then follows the claim made concerning the three most revolutionary theories in the physical, economic and moral realms, namely Darwinism, Marxism and Nietzscheism.

From The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem by Ford, Henry

A democratic and humanitarian realism—widely separated from the Nietzscheism of Merezhkovsky—strongly characterizes the Russian lineage.

From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Persky, Serge