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"text": "Seen through all these glasses Russia is judged, or rather misjudged, by the western world; no wonder, therefore, that it is believed to be a barbarous country, governed by tyrants, inhabited by a savage population; a mixture of indolence, ignorance, despotism, and nihilism, without one of the redeeming features of culture or civilization.",
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"ref": "a. 2007, Ronald G. Goetz, “Postliberal Theology and the Camel’s Nose”, in Rebecca Clancy, Larry Mattera, editors, Clear and Definite Words, Eugene, Or.: Pickwick Publications, Wipf and Stock Publishers, published 2010, page 101",
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"text": "[Robert] Jenson observes that treating \"other animals like humans is also to treat humans like other animals … Anthropological nihilism [seems] relatively harmless in … the 'animal rights' movement, but has been tested in frightful adult practice,\" e.g., Nazi socialism, or modern anthropological nihilisms evident in abortion on demand, euthanasia, and infanticide.",
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"text": "This great metaphysician [John Locke] considered, our ideas were derived from sensation and reflection; and preserved the distinction between these two sources of knowledge with great care; but by a perversion of his theory, his followers reduced them to sensation alone;—which by a necessary gradation leads to materialism, atheism and nihilism.",
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"text": "Psychological nihilism is a vulgar reaction to the difficulty of knowing the world, but it is also a way of reacting to the fear of nihilism. What is more, the vulgar threat of nihilism is overcome by [Friedrich] Nietzsche's authentic antinihilism. And yet false categories of information induce psychological nihilism, since we only value, as Nietzsche argues, a fictitious world.",
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"text": "[W]hat is most terrifying—including the perennial threat of cowardly terrorists—is the insidious growth of deadening nihilisms across political lines, nihilisms that have been suffocating the deep democratic energies in America. In Race Matters, I examined the increasing nihilism in black America as the \"lived experience of coping with a life of horrifying meaninglessness, hopelessness, and (most important) lovelessness.\"",
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"text": "Seen through all these glasses Russia is judged, or rather misjudged, by the western world; no wonder, therefore, that it is believed to be a barbarous country, governed by tyrants, inhabited by a savage population; a mixture of indolence, ignorance, despotism, and nihilism, without one of the redeeming features of culture or civilization.",
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"ref": "a. 2007, Ronald G. Goetz, “Postliberal Theology and the Camel’s Nose”, in Rebecca Clancy, Larry Mattera, editors, Clear and Definite Words, Eugene, Or.: Pickwick Publications, Wipf and Stock Publishers, published 2010, page 101",
"text": "Most Christians cannot embrace such radical extremes as the current nihilisms that deny all spiritual and ethical truth. How can a Christian look to Jesus Christ and deny that there is truth? He is the truth.",
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"ref": "2010, Christopher L. Fisher, “John Zizioulas: The Correlation of Divine and Human Personhood”, in Human Significance in Theology and the Natural Sciences: An Ecumenical Perspective with Reference to Pannenberg, Rahner, and Zizioulas (Princeton Theological Monograph Series), Eugene, Or.: Pickwick Publications, Wipf and Stock Publishers, part 1 (Human Significance in Theology), footnote 85, page 166",
"text": "[Robert] Jenson observes that treating \"other animals like humans is also to treat humans like other animals … Anthropological nihilism [seems] relatively harmless in … the 'animal rights' movement, but has been tested in frightful adult practice,\" e.g., Nazi socialism, or modern anthropological nihilisms evident in abortion on demand, euthanasia, and infanticide.",
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"ref": "1839, William Ingalls, A Lecture on the Subject of Phrenology not Opposed to the Principles of Religion; nor the Precepts of Christianity, Boston, Mass.: Dutton and Wentworth, […], →OCLC, pages 42–43",
"text": "This great metaphysician [John Locke] considered, our ideas were derived from sensation and reflection; and preserved the distinction between these two sources of knowledge with great care; but by a perversion of his theory, his followers reduced them to sensation alone;—which by a necessary gradation leads to materialism, atheism and nihilism.",
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"text": "This view may be styled Religious Nihilism. It affirms that Theism, or faith in an Almighty and All-wise Creator, Pantheism, and Atheism, are alike mere guesses in the dark, and that nothing is or can be known of that mysterious Something, which is the origin of the universe.",
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"ref": "1894, John M‘Clintock [i.e., John McClintock], James Strong, “Nihilism”, in Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, volumes VII (NEW–PES), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 91, column 2",
"text": "Nihilism is the result of continued and extreme philosophical scepticism [...] Among the first developments of Greek philosophy we find the nihilism of Georgias, one of the Sophists, and a contemporary of Socrates. He taught (1) that nothing exists; for if anything were, its being must be either derived or eternal; but it cannot have been derived, whether from the existent or from the non-existent (according to the Eleatics); nor can it be eternal, for then it must be infinite; but the infinite is nowhere, since it can neither be in itself nor in anything else, and what is nowhere is not.",
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"ref": "1999, Angèle Kremer-Marietti, “Nietzsche’s Critique of Modern Reason”, in Babette Babich, Robert S. Cohen, editors, Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge, and Critical Theory: Nietzsche and the Sciences I (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science; 203), Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, page 88",
"text": "Psychological nihilism is a vulgar reaction to the difficulty of knowing the world, but it is also a way of reacting to the fear of nihilism. What is more, the vulgar threat of nihilism is overcome by [Friedrich] Nietzsche's authentic antinihilism. And yet false categories of information induce psychological nihilism, since we only value, as Nietzsche argues, a fictitious world.",
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"ref": "2014, Bülent Diken, “Nihilism, Revolt, and the Spectacle”, in Nitzan Lebovic, Roy Ben-Shai, editors, The Politics of Nihilism: From the Nineteenth Century to Contemporary Israel (Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy), New York, N.Y., London: Bloomsbury Academic, Blooms Publishing, page 82",
"text": "If, in its origin, nihilism is a will to escape from the immanent \"chaos\" to a transcendent, illusory world, with modernity, or, with the \"death of God,\" this originary nihilism divides itself into two: radical and passive nihilism. [...] There is therefore a strange symmetry between the two nihilisms, between (Ahab's) willing nothingness and (Ishmael's) annihilation of will.",
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"ref": "1868 April, Charles Henry Merrill, “The Practical Influence of the Ideal. […]”, in George A. Blanchard, Franklin P. Wood, John K. Lord, editors, The Dartmouth, volume II, number IV, Hanover, N.H.: Students of Dartmouth College; […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 134",
"text": "At one fell swoop such persons would away with the idle songs of the poets, away with our heroes in fiction, away too with the examples left us in the lives of great men. For it substantially amounts to this; if they have no influence in moulding thought and directing action, they are in the economy of intellect mere nihilisms, dead forces, and when read or studied can of themselves be the occasion of neither good nor evil.",
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"ref": "2003 April 13, Lorraine Adams, “Regarding the Pain of Others: By Susan Sontag: Farrar Straus Giroux. 131 pp. $20 [book review]”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-24",
"text": "She [Susan Sontag] has honored beauty and justness, and she has chronicled how they were almost extinguished in the most devastatingly genocidal century to date. Without her, the dead Iraqi child on al-Jazeera would be just one of many, a signpost pointing toward the twin nihilisms of inevitability and ignorance.",
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"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic"
],
"word": "عدمية"
},
{
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic"
],
"word": "نيهيلية"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "nihilizm",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "նիհիլիզմ"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilismu"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "nihilizm"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "nihilismo"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "nihilizm",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "нігілізм"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nihilizǎm",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "нихилизъм"
},
{
"code": "rue",
"lang": "Carpathian Rusyn",
"roman": "nihilizm",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "нігілізм"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilisme"
},
{
"code": "ceb",
"lang": "Cebuano",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "magtagad sa panghunahuna"
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{
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "虛無主義"
},
{
"code": "nan-hbl",
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"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "虚无主义"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "虛無主義"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "xūwúzhǔyì",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "虚无主义"
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{
"code": "cs",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "cs",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilizmus"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "nihilisme"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
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"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
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"word": "nihilismo"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "nihilism"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "nihilismi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilisme"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilismo"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "nihilizmi",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "ნიჰილიზმი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Nihilismus"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "midenismós",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "μηδενισμός"
},
{
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "śūnyavād",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "શૂન્યવાદ"
},
{
"code": "ht",
"lang": "Haitian Creole",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "niilism"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "nihilizem",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ניהיליזם"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "afesanut",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "אַפְסָנוּת"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "nāilīzma",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "नाइलीज़्म"
},
{
"code": "hi",
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"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "निषेधवाद"
},
{
"code": "hi",
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"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "विनाशवाद"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "nihilizmus"
},
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
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"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "is",
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"code": "io",
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"code": "id",
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"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "nihilisme"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "it",
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"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "jam",
"lang": "Jamaican Creole",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "niyilizim"
},
{
"code": "ja",
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"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "ニヒリズム"
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"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "虚無主義"
},
{
"code": "kn",
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"word": "ನಿರಾಕರಣವಾದ"
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"code": "kk",
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"word": "нигилизм"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
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"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "허무주의"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
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"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "nîhîlîzm"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "hîçparêzî"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
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"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "hîçperestî"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
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"word": "nînperestî"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
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"word": "tuneperestî"
},
{
"code": "ky",
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{
"code": "la",
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],
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},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilizmas"
},
{
"code": "nds-nl",
"lang": "Dutch Low Saxon",
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"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "nihilisme"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
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"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "нихилизам"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "nihilisme"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "nihilisaṁ",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "നിഹിലിസം"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "neunheeys"
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{
"code": "xmf",
"lang": "Mingrelian",
"roman": "nihilizmi",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "ნიჰილიზმი"
},
{
"code": "zgh",
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"roman": "taẓṛwalut",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ⵜⴰⵥⵕⵡⴰⵍⵓⵜ"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilisme"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilisme"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "niilisme"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "نیهیلیسم"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilizm"
},
{
"code": "pt",
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"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "pa",
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"word": "ਨਹਿਲਵਾਦ"
},
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"code": "ro",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilism"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "sh",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "нихилѝзам"
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{
"code": "sh",
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"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilìzam"
},
{
"code": "sk",
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"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilizmus"
},
{
"code": "sl",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilizem"
},
{
"code": "so",
"lang": "Somali",
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"word": "faasiqnimo"
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{
"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilismus"
},
{
"code": "hsb",
"lang": "Upper Sorbian",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilizm"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilismo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "nihilism"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "nihilismo"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "nīlicam",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "நீலிசம்"
},
{
"code": "ta",
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{
"code": "th",
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"word": "สุญนิยม"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "nihilizm"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
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"code": "tr",
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{
"code": "uk",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "нігілізм"
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"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
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"word": "нигилизм"
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{
"code": "uz",
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"Roman"
],
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{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
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"word": "chủ nghĩa hư vô"
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{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life",
"word": "tư tưởng đoạn diệt"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "nihiliaeth"
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"code": "yi",
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"masculine"
],
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