nihility

American  

[nahy-hil-i-tee, nee-] / naɪˈhɪl ɪ ti, ni- /

noun

1. nothingness; nonexistence.

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Example Sentences

But nihility is inconsistent with the existence of living, reasoning—I know not what to call them—uniting in themselves, in a state of commenced synthesis or imminent dissolution, all the antagonistic attributes of being.

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

I never can forget the blank nihility of all existence that dreadful moment when I stood fumbling for what was not.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various

We treat it as a positive nihility, "a barrier from which all our batted balls of being rebound."

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry

No one has better expressed the anguish of a troubled and despairing soul, such as we find in the old harp-player in Wilhelm Meister, or the splendid nihility of certain poems of Michelangelo.

From Musicians of To-Day by Blaiklock, Mary

The matter under consideration was how to return Brassfield to his much-to-be-desired nihility: how to recover Amidon from his relapse into occultation.

From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Lowell, Orson