Nietzscheite

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Nietzsche +‎ -ite.

Noun[edit]

Nietzscheite (plural Nietzscheites)

  1. Synonym of Nietzschean.
    • 1904 December 15, Prince Peter Kropotkin, “Maxím Górky”, in The Independent, volume 57, number 2924, New York, page 1380:
      However, Górky's rebel-tramp, is not a Nietzscheite who ignores everything beyond his narrow egotism, or imagines himself an “over-man” the “diseased ambition” of “an intellectual” is required to create the true Nietzscheite type.
    • 1908, Gilbert K. Chesterton, “The Eternal Revolution”, in Orthodoxy, New York: John Lane Company, page 198:
      He is calmed and kept in his place by a constant succession of wild philosophies. He is a Marxian one day, a Nietzscheite the next day, a Superman (probably) the next day; and a slave every day. The only thing that remains after all the philosophies is the factory.