Nietzscheanism

noun

Nietz·sche·an·ism | \ -əˌnizəm\

variants: or Nietzscheism \ -chēˌizəm \

plural -s

Definition of Nietzscheanism

: the philosophical theories of Nietzsche advocating the overcoming of both a threatening nihilism and a slave morality as exemplified for him in historical Christianity through a reevaluation of all values on the basis of a will to power epitomized in his doctrine of the superman and the idea of the eternal recurrence of all things

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