Nihilartikel

A fake article in a dictionary or encyclopedia or other reference work that was added as a hoax.

Nihilartikel was itself a hoax that appeared in the German version of the wikipedia, and then was copied into the English version, where it resided for over a year before somebody spotted it and removed it.

by Church Wolf August 18, 2006

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nihil

(1)A Latin word which means "nothing" or "nothingness"; hence nihilists, who do not believe in anything and deny existence.

(2) A KMFDM album.

(1) Nihilism can be philosophical.

(2) Nihil was released in 1995.

by ShoopKiller September 25, 2004

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nihilistic

A word that nobody really knows what it actually means but is often used by pretentious book and film critics so that they can feel smug.

Pretentious film critic: "The character of Jeffrey F DuMont held a pessismtic, indeed nihilistic, view of the sexual mores of Englands middle class Edwardian social strata, and upheld the view that the Schrodinger's cat paradox between Maria, the pastor's daughter and Bertie, the sentient lump of coal was essentially intrangible"

by Ghunt70 January 4, 2009

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