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Nihilism

Quality:

Nihilism - philosophy of negation towards concepts, meaning, or life. Article “Nihilism” in Simple English Wikipedia has 69.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 50 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 3926th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.
The 6618th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 1296th most popular in all topics.
The 4747th most popular in AI.
Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 1907th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.
Global Wikipedia:
The 3394th most popular in all topics in the last month.
The 5690th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Nihilism”, its content was written by 30 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6618th place) and edited by 3629 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4747th place).

The article is cited 165 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 14424 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #462 in January 2021
  • Global: #846 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #818 in March 2011
  • Global: #703 in May 2009

There are 52 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Nihilism
92.8423
2Hindi (hi)
नास्तिवाद
80
3Tamil (ta)
இல்லாமை தத்துவம்
79.8005
4Russian (ru)
Нигилизм
75.5529
5Italian (it)
Nichilismo
75.0262
6Simple English (simple)
Nihilism
69.8969
7Arabic (ar)
عدمية
67.0152
8Turkish (tr)
Nihilizm
60.3497
9Chinese (zh)
虚无主义
38.3196
10German (de)
Nihilismus
38.1728
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Nihilism" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Nihilism
29 721 034
2Spanish (es)
Nihilismo
9 184 949
3Russian (ru)
Нигилизм
6 430 303
4German (de)
Nihilismus
5 708 585
5French (fr)
Nihilisme
4 095 958
6Italian (it)
Nichilismo
4 009 156
7Portuguese (pt)
Niilismo
3 536 037
8Polish (pl)
Nihilizm
3 379 503
9Japanese (ja)
ニヒリズム
2 514 855
10Turkish (tr)
Nihilizm
1 539 075
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Nihilism" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Nihilism
101 012
2Russian (ru)
Нигилизм
19 119
3Spanish (es)
Nihilismo
17 095
4German (de)
Nihilismus
12 407
5French (fr)
Nihilisme
11 478
6Japanese (ja)
ニヒリズム
9 442
7Chinese (zh)
虚无主义
7 407
8Italian (it)
Nichilismo
6 622
9Portuguese (pt)
Niilismo
4 042
10Turkish (tr)
Nihilizm
3 027
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Nihilism" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Nihilism
1 076
2French (fr)
Nihilisme
279
3German (de)
Nihilismus
265
4Spanish (es)
Nihilismo
225
5Italian (it)
Nichilismo
201
6Russian (ru)
Нигилизм
147
7Portuguese (pt)
Niilismo
101
8Turkish (tr)
Nihilizm
98
9Dutch (nl)
Nihilisme (filosofie)
83
10Japanese (ja)
ニヒリズム
76
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Nihilism" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Nihilism
15
2Spanish (es)
Nihilismo
2
3Arabic (ar)
عدمية
1
4Persian (fa)
هیچ‌انگاری
1
5French (fr)
Nihilisme
1
6Italian (it)
Nichilismo
1
7Korean (ko)
허무주의
1
8Dutch (nl)
Nihilisme (filosofie)
1
9Polish (pl)
Nihilizm
1
10Portuguese (pt)
Niilismo
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Nihilism" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Nihilism
1 842
2Persian (fa)
هیچ‌انگاری
1 051
3French (fr)
Nihilisme
985
4Arabic (ar)
عدمية
885
5Serbian (sr)
Нихилизам
680
6Italian (it)
Nichilismo
555
7Korean (ko)
허무주의
546
8German (de)
Nihilismus
537
9Japanese (ja)
ニヒリズム
532
10Spanish (es)
Nihilismo
513
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
عدمية
azAzerbaijani
Nihilizm
beBelarusian
Нігілізм
bgBulgarian
Нихилизъм
caCatalan
Nihilisme
csCzech
Nihilismus
daDanish
Nihilisme
deGerman
Nihilismus
elGreek
Μηδενισμός
enEnglish
Nihilism
eoEsperanto
Nihilismo
esSpanish
Nihilismo
etEstonian
Nihilism
euBasque
Nihilismo
faPersian
هیچ‌انگاری
fiFinnish
Nihilismi
frFrench
Nihilisme
glGalician
Nihilismo
heHebrew
ניהיליזם
hiHindi
नास्तिवाद
hrCroatian
Nihilizam
huHungarian
Nihilizmus
hyArmenian
Նիհիլիզմ
idIndonesian
Nihilisme
itItalian
Nichilismo
jaJapanese
ニヒリズム
kaGeorgian
ნიჰილიზმი
kkKazakh
Нигилизм
koKorean
허무주의
laLatin
Nihilismus
ltLithuanian
Nihilizmas
msMalay
Nihilisme
nlDutch
Nihilisme (filosofie)
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Nihilisme
noNorwegian
Nihilisme
plPolish
Nihilizm
ptPortuguese
Niilismo
roRomanian
Nihilism
ruRussian
Нигилизм
shSerbo-Croatian
Nihilizam
simpleSimple English
Nihilism
skSlovak
Nihilizmus
srSerbian
Нихилизам
svSwedish
Nihilism
taTamil
இல்லாமை தத்துவம்
thThai
สุญนิยม
trTurkish
Nihilizm
ukUkrainian
Нігілізм
urUrdu
عدمیت
uzUzbek
Nigilizm
viVietnamese
Thuyết hư vô
zhChinese
虚无主义

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#818
03.2011
Global:
#703
05.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#462
01.2021
Global:
#846
12.2001

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Nihilism from Wikipedia articles about Friedrich Nietzsche, Joker, Blood Meridian, T.J. Miller and Sid Vicious. Whereas reading the article about Nihilism people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Friedrich Nietzsche, Existential nihilism, Existentialism, Ivan Turgenev and Moral nihilism.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

simple: Nihilism

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