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nihilism

[nahy-uh-liz-uhm, nee-] / ˈnaɪ əˌlɪz əm, ˈni- /


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So can we declare Gen Z financial nihilism a myth, at least among young men?

From MarketWatch • Jan. 15, 2026

I want my students and children’s friends to be healthy, but I also understand the gesture, the fashionable nihilism, the hedonism, the why not.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

The boys and men - whom Ms Barrett calls "crimefluencers" - subscribe to a variety of ideologies, including including nihilism, sadism, Nazism and satanism.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

Like, they just have this kind of nihilism.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2025

In an ecological version of therapeutic nihilism, they want to leave the river basin to its own devices.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann