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

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

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

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

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To apply Nietzscheism to socialism was, however, beyond her; to reconcile the two doctrines which apparently conflict and really only overlap was a task too difficult for a brain which had lain fallow for twenty-five years.

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

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