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
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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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[ noun ] complete denial of all established authority and institutions
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