nihility
Americannoun
noun
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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 P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
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
It was not, however, in order to arrive at that state of delicious, intellectual nihility, thai we had gone to mysterious Whitechapel.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 by Guy de Maupassant
The writers whom it ridicules, have sunk into nihility.
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous
When we reach the latter, we feel an almost irresistible inclination to class it with spirit, or with nihility.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe
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