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nihilator

nihilator noun: that which nihilates.

Noun

nihilator (plural nihilators)

  1. That which nihilates.
    • Being alone can nihilate without itself being nihilated. In the act of nihilation the nihilator remains.1980, Darshana International, volumes 20-21, J. P. Atreya, page 80
    • Every ego is engaged in “a desperate effort to be” - desperate because we are all nihilators defending our fragile project of being, which necessarily involves mutual destruction: […]1988, Joseph C. McLelland, Prometheus Rebound: The Irony of Atheism, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, →ISBN, page 267

Forms of nihilator

pluralnihilators

Origin of nihilator

From nihilate + -or.

Questions about nihilator

What does nihilator mean?
Nihilator means that which nihilates.
What part of speech is nihilator?
Nihilator is a noun.
What is the plural of nihilator?
The plural of nihilator is nihilators.

Words near nihilator in the dictionary

  1. nihilated
  2. nihilates
  3. nihilating
  4. nihilation
  5. nihilations
  6. nihilator
  7. nihilators
  8. nihileities
  9. nihileity
  10. nihilhood
  11. nihilianism

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