zeroism

Noun

zeroism (uncountable)

1. A belief that the physical world is illusion.
   • Zeroism is distinct from nihilism. It is a true central philosophy because it is neither Absolutism nor nihilism.1964, Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar, Summaries of papers; supplement, page 190
   • The conception of Emptiness in Taoist Mysticism of China was influenced by the conception of Vedic representation of Sanya (zero) and Buddhist conception of Sinyāta (zeroism) of India.1984, Prācī-jyoti: Digest of Indological Studies - Volumes 16-17, page 244
2. A refusal to act or take a stance; extreme passivity.
   • Until my recent experience, I had no just conception of the political zeroism of the French Chamber of Peers.1838, Isaac Appleton Jewett, Passages in Foreign Travel - Volume 2, page 66
   • To advocate anything except zeroism, neutralism, fatalism, middle-of-the-roadism, golden-meanism, is to become biased, doctrinaire, dogmatic, unscientific.1954, Restoring Our American Heritage
3. Any of various artistic movements in which the artist refused to write works with any message or higher meaning.
   • It distantly resembled human beings, but for pure, unadulterated zeroism—well, as it was the Record picture, you might be moved to remark that the Photographer was representing the soul.1917, The Yale Literary Magazine - Volume 83, page 429
   • going to write book on zero culture/ the amount of zeroness in the modern novel/or de developement of zeroism in poetry/or zero play/& how zeros went to puerto rico &1970, Adam David Miller, Dices or Black bones; Black voices of the seventies, page 37