Complete Definition of "nihilation"

English

Noun
nihilation

  1. The act of nihilating

see: nihilate

Etymology
This word was created by w:Jean-Paul Sartre in the original french as neantir. This was translated to English as nihilate by w:Hazel E. Barnes in the 1984 version of Being and Nothingness, but was first used in English by w:Helmut Kuhn in his Encounter with Nothingness.

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