nihilism
noun
total rejection of established laws and institutions.
nihilist
-
a word derived from
nihilism.
Example Sentences
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Judges across the country prove every day that the law is still the last, best guardrail against that sort of nihilist thinking.
From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2026
Whatever her chosen name and persona, our narrator remains a delightful original—part quirky, impetuous innocent, part optimistic nihilist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
He is a kind of nihilist who believes in domination and accumulating as much power as he possibly can.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2025
He was described to me as an "evil nihilist" by Dr Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease doctor and senior scholar at Johns Hopkins University.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
If the wearer be not a priest of the Orthodox Church, I like to think of him as a Russian nihilist.
From The Sixth Sense A Novel by Stephen McKenna
