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Nietzschean
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nietzschean
English
Alternative forms
en Nietzschen
Etymology
en :af Nietzsche -ean + 1
Pronunciation
en /ˈniː.t͡ʃɪ.ən/ UK
en /ˈni.t͡ʃi.ən/ US
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Rho9998-Nietzschean.wav UK
Adjective
Of, pertaining to or characteristic of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, or his writings.
He could never cross it and explain to them his position,—the Nietzschean position, in regard to socialism.
196 Rejected by the middle class, which he loathed, he had shot up at once into the highest circles by his wit, his dustmanship (which he carried like a banner), and his Nietzschean transcendence of good and evil.
There are the Nietzschean Bootstrap-lifters, who lift themselves to the Superman, and the art-for-art's-sake, neo-Pagan Bootstrap-lifters, who lift themselves down to the Ape.
341 A half-burned cigar rolled between his mobile lips, he sat on the back of his neck, and yet he had an air Napoleonic; Nietzschean, it might better be said—although it is safe to assert that these moulders of American institutions knew little about that terrible philosopher who had raised his voice against the “slave morals of Christianity.”
The Crime of Partition 165–166 166 The Germanic Tribes had told the whole world in all possible tones carrying conviction, the gently persuasive, the coldly logical; in tones Hegelian, Nietzschean, warlike, pious, cynical, inspired, what they were going to do to the inferior races of the earth, so full of sin and all unworthiness.
w:George Santayana I Like to Be a Stranger https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1952/05/i-like-to-be-a-stranger/640931/ May 1952 Yet they did not preach a racial war on the Jewish foundations of Christianity, nor propose to saddle a Nietzschean morality on peaceful lands like Austria, Bavaria, and the Rhineland that were traditionally Catholic.
Derived terms
en Nietzscheanly Nietzscheanism
Translations
pertaining to Nietzsche or his writings
Arabic: ar نِتْشِيّ
Catalan: ca nietzscheà
Czech: cs nietzscheovský, cs nietzschovský
Esperanto: eo niĉea
Estonian: et Nietzschelik
Finnish: fi nietzscheläinen
French: fr nietzschéen
German: de nietzschesch
Greek: el νιτσεϊκός m
Hungarian: hu nietzschei
Italian: it nietzschiano, it nicciano, it nietzscheano
Japanese: ja ニーチェの Nīche no
Polish: pl nietzscheański
Portuguese: pt nietzschiano, pt nietzscheano
Russian: ru ницшеа́нский
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh ничѐа̄нскӣ
Latin: sh ničèānskī
Spanish: es nietzscheano
Swedish: sv nietzscheansk
Ukrainian: uk ніцшеа́нський
Vietnamese: vi Nít-sơ
Noun
A supporter of the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche.
2 Because she was brave, because she was “spoiled,” because of her outrageous and commendable independence of judgment, and finally because of her arrogant consciousness that she had never seen a girl as beautiful as herself, Gloria had developed into a consistent, practising Nietzschean. This, of course, with overtones of profound sentiment.
Translations
a supporter of Nietzsche's ideas
Czech: cs nietzscheovec m, cs nietzschovec m
Esperanto: eo niĉeisto, eo niĉeistino
Finnish: fi nietzscheläinen
French: fr nietzschéen m, fr nietzschéenne f
Greek: el νιτσεϊστής m, el νιτσεΐστρια f
Hungarian: hu nietzschei
Italian: it nietzschiano m, it nietzschiana f, it nicciano m, it nicciana f, it nietzscheano m, it nietzscheana f
Polish: pl nietzscheanista m
Portuguese: pt nietzschiano m, pt nietzschiana f, pt nietzscheano m, pt nietzscheana f
Russian: ru ницшеа́нец m, ru ницшеа́нка f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh ничеа́нац m
Latin: sh ničeánac m
Spanish: es nietzscheano m, es nietzscheana f
Swedish: sv nietzschean c
Ukrainian: uk ніцшеа́нець m, uk ніцшеа́нка f
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