one meaning: "A Russian anarchistic revolutionary #doctrine (1860 - 1917) holding that conditions in the social organization are so bad as to make #destruction desirable for its own sake, independent of any constructive program or possibility." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nihilism#Noun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilist_movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism_%28disambiguation%29 cc @question