-əˌnizəm noun
or nietz·sche·ism -chēˌizəm
( -s )
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: nietzscheanism from nietzschean (I) + -ism; nietzscheism from F. W. Nietzsche + English -ism
: 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