Nihilator
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Nihilator is a noun meaning (philosophy) That which nihilates.
Meaning
(philosophy) That which nihilates.
Example Sentences
Being alone can nihilate without itself being nihilated. In the act of nihilation the nihilator remains.
Every ego is engaged in “a desperate effort to be” - desperate because we are all nihilators defending our fragile project of being, which necessarily involves mutual destruction: […]
[…] French Resistance left him with a feeling of human solidarity quite absent from his earlier works, in which other people are most characteristically represented as Heidegger’s ‘They’ -- obstacles to our discovery of ourselves, nihilators of our possibilities.
Word Forms
- nihilators
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nihilation, nihil, nihilism, nihilist, nihilhood, nihilianism.
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