nihilistic delusion

1. 1.

   the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal

   Synonymsnihilism

   Broaderdelusion

Questions about nihilistic delusion

What does nihilistic delusion mean?

nihilistic delusion means "the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal".

What is another word for nihilistic delusion?

Close synonyms include nihilism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nihilistic delusion a common word?

nihilistic delusion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.