nothingism

nothingism

English

Etymology

From nothing +‎ -ism.

Noun

nothingism (usually uncountable, plural nothingisms)

  1. Nihility; nothingness.
    • c. 1959, Lorraine Hansberry, The Negro Writer and His Roots: Toward a New Romanticism:
      [The Beats] have broken away to form their own vague, non-inspirational rebellion of rejection and nothingism. […] They are a failure.
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