nihility
Americannoun
noun
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There are many things on the Earth, which would be nihility to the inhabitants of Venus—many things visible and tangible in Venus, which we could not be brought to appreciate as existing at all.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe
Nor is there any one, I suppose, who has passed the meridian of life, who has not at some moments felt the nihility of all things.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
We treat it as a positive nihility, "a barrier from which all our batted balls of being rebound."
From Memories and Studies by Henry James
At the happiest periods of my existence I often became a prey to grim dejection such as nobody could understand but which was caused by the thought of impending nihility.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
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 Mary Blaiklock
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