nihilism has definitions from the fields of politics,psychology,psychiatry
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[ noun ] (politics) a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake

Used in print

(Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine,"...)

But to me Beckett 's writing had seemed permeated with love for human_beings and with a kind of humor that I could reconcile neither with despair nor with nihilism .

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doctrine

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[ noun ] (psychology,psychiatry) the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal

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delusion

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[ noun ] complete denial of all established authority and institutions

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anarchy

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