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From Nietzschean +‎ -ism.

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈniː.t͡ʃɪ.ənɪzəm/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈni.t͡ʃi.ənɪzəm/

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Nietzscheanism (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy) The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), or support for its views.
    • 1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book 2:
      On gray mornings when the jests of the night before had shrunk to ribaldries without wit or dignity, they could, after a fashion, bring out this batch of common hopes and count them over, then smile at each other and repeat, by way of clinching the matter, the terse yet sincere Nietzscheanism of Gloria's defiant "I don't care!"

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