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Nihilism

Nothingness; nihility.

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Anarchy 76% connected

Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.

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Delusion 76% connected

The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.

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Doctrine 76% connected

Teaching; instruction.

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Ism 76% connected

A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory.

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Philosophy 76% connected

Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes an…

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Nihilist 74% connected

One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist.

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Nihilist 74% connected

One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist.

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Nihilistic 74% connected

Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, nihilism.

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Nihilistic 74% connected

Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, nihilism.

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Aboulia noun · 86% connection

a loss of will power

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Abulia noun · 86% connection

a loss of will power

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Anhedonia noun · 86% connection

an inability to experience pleasure

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Catathymia noun · 86% connection

A state in which mental processes are under the control of the emotions.; "The original idea of catathymia forwarded by Maier (1912),…

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Cognitive state noun · 86% connection

the state of a person's cognitive processes

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Decentering noun · 86% connection

Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others.;…

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Decentration noun · 86% connection

Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others.;…

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Delusions of grandeur noun · 86% connection

a delusion (common in paranoia) that you are much greater and more powerful and influential than you really are

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Delusions of persecution noun · 86% connection

a delusion (common in paranoia) that others are out to get you and frustrate and embarrass you or inflict suffering on you; a complica…

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Depersonalisation noun · 86% connection

(existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine

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Depersonalization noun · 86% connection

(existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine

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Disassociation noun · 86% connection

a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently

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Frame of mind noun · 86% connection

a temporary psychological state

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Hallucinosis noun · 86% connection

a mental state in which the person has continual hallucinations

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Identity crisis noun · 86% connection

distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about one's self and one'…

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Mental condition noun · 86% connection

(psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic;…

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Mental disease noun · 86% connection

any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychia…

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Mental health noun · 86% connection

the psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment

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Cipherhood noun · 78% connection

Nothingness.

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Do-nothingism noun · 78% connection

Alt. of Do-nothingness

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Maya noun · 78% connection

The name for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion.

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Nihility noun · 78% connection

Nothingness; a state of being nothing.

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Nothing noun · 78% connection

Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness.

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Nothingism noun · 78% connection

Nihility; nothingness.

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Nothingness noun · 78% connection

Nihility; nonexistence.

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Nullity noun · 78% connection

The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy or force.

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Vacuity noun · 78% connection

Want of reality; inanity; nihility.

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