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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who believes in nothing; one who advocates the metaphysical doctrine of nihilism.
  2. n. One who rejects all the positive beliefs upon which existing society and governments are founded; one who demands the abolition of the existing social and political order of things.
  3. n. Specifically An adherent of nihilism; a member of a Russian secret society which aims at the overthrow of the existing order of things, social, political, and religious; a Russian anarchist or revolutionary reformer. See nihilism, 4.

Wiktionary

  1. n. philosophy, religion A person who accepts or champions nihilism.
  2. n. An absolute skeptic; a person who believes in the truth of nothing.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist.
  2. n. (Politics) A member of a secret association (esp. in Russia), which is devoted to the destruction of the present political, religious, and social institutions.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief
  2. n. an advocate of anarchism

Etymologies

  1. From Latin nihil ("nothing") + -ist. (Wiktionary)

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  • spicolli Nihilists! F**k me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
    - Walter Sobchack, in the Big Liebowski Apr 17, 2007

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