nothingism
nounEtymology From nothing + -ism.
1
Usually Nihility; nothingness.
- [The Beats] have broken away to form their own vague, non-inspirational rebellion of rejection and nothingism. […] They are a failure.c. 1959, Lorraine Hansberry, The Negro Writer and His Roots: Toward a New Romanticism:
- Related terms
- do-nothingism, Know-Nothingism