annihilationist

annihilationist

English

Etymology

annihilation +‎ -ist

Noun

annihilationist (plural annihilationists)

1. A person who believes in annihilationism: that eternal punishment is the annihilation of both the body and the soul.
2. A person who advocates or practices annihilationism (the annihilation of a group): an eliminationist.

Translations

person who believes that eternal punishment is the annihilation of both the body and the soul

Portuguese: aniquilacionista m or f

Adjective

annihilationist (comparative more annihilationist, superlative most annihilationist)

1. Advocating annihilationism; advocating the annihilation of a group of people.
   • 2010, Elhanan Yakira, Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust: Three Essays (→ISBN), page 36:

     This negation has sometimes been no less “annihilationist” than classical anti-Semitism, because, at least potentially, it serves to justify the elimination of the State of Israel.

   • 2014, Waitman Wade Beorn, Marching into Darkness (→ISBN)

     At times, though, his more economic approach to Jewish policy conflicted with the more annihilationist bent of the SS.

   Synonym: eliminationist