nihility
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Eternity is not of longer duration than one second spent in nihility.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
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 Zola, Émile
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
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 Poe, Edgar Allan
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
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