nihility
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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 Poe, Edgar Allan
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
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
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 Darwin, Erasmus
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