Word: Nihillistic

You Pronounce It: ni·hil·ism

Definition: n.
1. Philosophy The doctrine that nothing actually exists or that existence or values are meaningless.
2. Relentless negativity or cynicism suggesting an absence of values or beliefs: nihilism in postwar art.
3. a. Political belief or action that advocates or commits violence or terrorism without discernible constructive goals.
b. also Nihilism A diffuse, revolutionary movement of mid-19th-century Russia that scorned authority and tradition and believed in reason, materialism, and radical change in society and government through terrorism and assassination.
4. Psychiatry A delusion, experienced in some mental disorders, that the world or one’s mind, body, or self does not exist.

I found it:

While reading, The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present by Bissell and Herzberg.

Works Cited:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nihilistic