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

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Etymology

Origin of Nietzscheism

First recorded in 1905–10; Nietzsche + -ism

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Example Sentences

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Nietzscheism

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

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

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

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

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 Jane Addams

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

From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Serge Persky

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 Henry Ford

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