1817, "the doctrine of negation" (in reference to religion or morals), from German Nihilismus, from Latin nihil "nothing at all" (see nil), coined by German philosopher Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819). In philosophy, an extreme form of skepticism (1836). The political sense was first used by German journalist Joseph von G?rres (1776-1848). Turgenev used the Russian form of the word (nigilizm) in "Fathers and Children" (1862) and claimed to have invented it. With a capital N-, it refers to the Russian revolutionary anarchism of the period 1860-1917, supposedly so called because "nothing" that then existed found favor in their eyes.
雙語例句
1. Why should a great community like a university be afraid of nihilism?
為什么像大學(xué)這樣人才濟(jì)濟(jì)的社區(qū)要害怕虛無主義呢？
來自柯林斯例句
2. The philosophy of those long - hairs leans towards nihilism.
那些長發(fā)嬉皮士的人生觀傾向于虛無主義.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. By contrast, the chilly Californian nihilism of Robinson Jeffers was a refreshing tonic.
相形之下, 羅賓遜?杰弗斯的加州冷冰冰的虛無主義反而給人以清新興奮之感.
來自辭典例句
4. This finale is correlative with his viewpoint of nihilism an d humanitarianism.
這種結(jié)局與周氏的虛無主義和個(gè)人主義的人道主義世界觀密不可分.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. Nihilism rejects any objective basis for society and its morality.