[mass noun]the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless 虚无主义 ■(Philosophy)extreme scepticism maintaining that nothing in the world has a real existence (哲)虚无主义,极端怀疑论 ■(historical)the doctrine of an extreme Russian revolutionary party (c. 1900) which found nothing to approve of in the established social order (史)民粹主义
派生 nihilist noun nihilistic adjective 语源
early 19th cent.: from Latin nihil 'nothing' + -ism