nothingness
[nuhth-ing-nis]
- the state of being nothing.
- something that is nonexistent: a view of humanity as suspended between infinity and nothingness.
- lack of being; nonexistence: The sound faded into nothingness.
- unconsciousness or death: She remembered a dizzy feeling, then nothingness.
- utter insignificance, emptiness, or worthlessness; triviality: The days followed one another in an endless procession of nothingness.
- something insignificant or without value.
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Origin of nothingness
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Contemporary Examples
This book seeks to fill that void (although arguably atheist kids should get used to nothingness sooner rather than later).
I do not like this sense of God, this nothingness in which I now dwell.
“Attach Form(s) W-2” would be an exercise in the stapling of nothingness.
Up to a Point: I Do My Own Taxes With No Help, Except From a Couple of Bloody MarysP. J. O’Rourke
April 15, 2014
Athletes are also carefully trained in the Zen of nothingness.
Historical Examples
He will pass to the dark realm of nothingness, but will not find me there.
Monsieur du Muroir (From "Mosses From An Old Manse")Nathaniel Hawthorne
But the new voice was stilled into nothingness by the shrill, reawakening falsetto.
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
Afterwards all these impressions blended into one nothingness.
Master and ManLeo Tolstoy
On the other side this life is a nothingness so large that you will be as nothing in it.
The First ViolinJessie Fothergill
What a consciousness of his own nothingness, and of his sins!
The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, CompleteDuc de Saint-Simon
nothingness
- the state or condition of being nothing; nonexistence
- absence of consciousness or life
- complete insignificance or worthlessness
- something that is worthless or insignificant
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Word Origin and History for nothingness
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