Meaning

(Buddhism) A belief that the physical world is illusion..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Buddhism) A belief that the physical world is illusion.
2. A refusal to act or take a stance; extreme passivity.
3. Any of various artistic movements in which the artist refused to write works with any message or higher meaning.

Example Sentences

Zeroism is distinct from nihilism. It is a true central philosophy because it is neither Absolutism nor nihilism.

The conception of Emptiness in Taoist Mysticism of China was influenced by the conception of Vedic representation of Sanya (zero) and Buddhist conception of Sinyāta (zeroism) of India.

Gandhi set a high ideal, which actually does not attract much interest in The whole idea of "zeroism"--"to be the last in the peace research community.

Until my recent experience, I had no just conception of the political zeroism of the French Chamber of Peers.

To advocate anything except zeroism, neutralism, fatalism, middle-of-the-roadism, golden-meanism, is to become biased, doctrinaire, dogmatic, unscientific.

The battlefield would be devoid of fighters . War is always bracketed with heroism . Yet war does not yield any positive results . Peace appears to be zeroism , but all the best achievements are inevitably arrived at by peaceful means .

...their rhetoric fashions immigrants' identities out of victimhood, zeroism, and self-destruction.

It distantly resembled human beings, but for pure, unadulterated zeroism—well, as it was the Record picture, you might be moved to remark that the Photographer was representing the soul.

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