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nihility

[nahy-hil-i-tee, nee-]

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noun

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But influences take a back seat here to the slow, deliberate act of painting, and the paradox of creation in nihility.

Out of those eyes and that long, thin face stared death; not hot, sudden death, but nihility, cool, deliberate, that waited for one!

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.

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

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