While studying the book “When helping hurts – how to alleviate poverty without hurting the poor and yourself I came across this word.
I looked it up in the Concise Oxford Dictionary “nihilism
/ˈnʌɪ(h)ɪlɪz(ə)m /
▸ n.
1 the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless.
2 Philosophy the belief that nothing has a real existence.
– DERIVATIVES nihilist n.
nihilistic adj.
– ORIGIN C19: from L. nihil ‘nothing’ + -ism.”