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annihilationism

noun

Etymology

From annihilation + -ism.

  1. derived from annihilātiō
  2. borrowed from annihilation
  3. suffixed as annihilationism — “annihilation + ism”

Definitions

  1. The Christian doctrine that sinners are permanently destroyed.

  2. Advocacy of, or a policy of, annihilating a certain (racial, religious, etc) group

    Advocacy of, or a policy of, annihilating a certain (racial, religious, etc) group; eliminationism.

    • If genocide and, hence, the Holocaust in particular, are to be better understood, then the roots of annihilationism—the origins of ultra-extreme intolerance—need to be explored.

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