Explore Nihilist through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like anarchist or syndicalist. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Nihilist meaning
- A person who accepts or champions nihilism.
- An absolute skeptic; a person who believes in the truth of nothing.
Synonyms of Nihilist
Using Nihilist
- The main meaning on this page is: A person who accepts or champions nihilism. | An absolute skeptic; a person who believes in the truth of nothing.
- Useful related words include: nonreligious person, anarchist, syndicalist, radical.
- In the example corpus, nihilist often appears in combinations such as: russian nihilist, nihilist movement, the nihilist.
Context around Nihilist
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Nihilist
- In this selection, "nihilist" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, russian, moral, sports, movement, agreed and goon stand out and add context to how "nihilist" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a moral nihilist would say and a nihilist is a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "nihilist" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with nihilist
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Are you a hedonist, a nihilist, what persona do you choose?” continues Prof Calleja. (14 words)
To kill a child, you have to be a nihilist goon with no values whatsoever. (15 words)
In this way Western philosophies can be classified in Buddhist terms as eternalist or nihilist. (15 words)
He states that there is at least the possibility of another type of nihilist in the wake of Christianity's self-dissolution, one that does not stop after the destruction of all value and meaning and succumb to the following nothingness. (41 words)
As an example, if someone kills someone else, such a nihilist might argue that killing is not inherently a bad thing, or bad independently from our moral beliefs, because of the way morality is constructed as some rudimentary dichotomy. (39 words)
In 1983 Kaj Skagen published a polemical-philosophical treatise titled Bazarovs barn ("Bazarov's Children", alluding to the Russian fictional nihilist Eugene Bazarov ), which reconciled the role of authors who had been on the periphery in the 70s. (38 words)
Example sentences (17)
Russian nihilist movement main The Russian Nihilist movement was a Russian trend in the 1860s that rejected all authority.
Welcome to Deadspin’s The Sports Nihilist, where all is for naught and we are but accidental jolts of electrified meat stuck to the surface of a rock in an indifferent universe.
Are you a hedonist, a nihilist, what persona do you choose?” continues Prof Calleja.
It is patronized by the knowledgeable and the vacuous, the purpose oriented and the dilletante, the nihilist and the builder.
If you want to be sad, become a nihilist and go live in Norway, whose constitution will soon recognize the right of the salmon to seek happiness at the expense of the Norwegians.
The anarchist said things that can’t be reprinted in a newspaper, and the nihilist agreed.
To kill a child, you have to be a nihilist goon with no values whatsoever.
Bad governments don’t start as nihilist terror; they’re the work of people who look like your neighbors.
A nihilist is a man who judges of the world as it is that it ought not to be, and of the world as it ought to be that it does not exist.
As an example, if someone kills someone else, such a nihilist might argue that killing is not inherently a bad thing, or bad independently from our moral beliefs, because of the way morality is constructed as some rudimentary dichotomy.
For example, a moral nihilist would say that killing someone, for whatever reason, is neither morally right nor morally wrong.
For example, a moral nihilist would say that killing someone, for whatever reason, is not inherently right or wrong.
He states that there is at least the possibility of another type of nihilist in the wake of Christianity's self-dissolution, one that does not stop after the destruction of all value and meaning and succumb to the following nothingness.
In 1983 Kaj Skagen published a polemical-philosophical treatise titled Bazarovs barn ("Bazarov's Children", alluding to the Russian fictional nihilist Eugene Bazarov ), which reconciled the role of authors who had been on the periphery in the 70s.
In his response to Brandes, Strindberg explained that: I am a socialist, a nihilist, a republican, anything that is anti-reactionary!..
In this way Western philosophies can be classified in Buddhist terms as eternalist or nihilist.
The main antagonist Agent Smith is also depicted frequently as a nihilist, with him ranting about how all of peace, justice and love were meaningless in The Matrix Revolutions.
Common combinations with nihilist
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: