nothingarian

(ˌnʌθɪŋˈɛərɪən)

(Philosophy) a person who has no or little political or theological affiliation; a person who does not believe in or stand for anything in particular

adj

(Philosophy) of or relating to nothingarians or their views (or lack thereof)

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He used to say he was a Nothingarian and lived up to it--kind of bragging like.

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Ballou was having no truck with antinomianism, and makes backhanded references to the more radical nothingarian 'Christians' and free-love communards--"they aim at nothing, and will be sure to hit it" (69).

Adin Ballou. Practical Christianity: an Epitome of Practical Christian Socialism

The synagogues are empty, more "grand vacuum" than grand house of worship, and young people today are "loud in dress, louder in commonplace and empty words," or, worse still, apt to be "atheists, agnostics, or nothingarians," adds a third and then a fourth naysayer.