nothingness
Americannoun
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the state of being nothing.
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something that is nonexistent.
a view of humanity as suspended between infinity and nothingness.
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lack of being; nonexistence.
The sound faded into nothingness.
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unconsciousness or death.
She remembered a dizzy feeling, then nothingness.
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utter insignificance, emptiness, or worthlessness; triviality.
The days followed one another in an endless procession of nothingness.
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something insignificant or without value.
noun
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the state or condition of being nothing; nonexistence
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absence of consciousness or life
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complete insignificance or worthlessness
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something that is worthless or insignificant
Etymology
Origin of nothingness
Example Sentences
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Hanna’s grief for Erik is the key to her art, but so is the nothingness he seems to have disappeared into.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Rambunctious and astute, the toddler heroine of the sublimely beautiful animated film “Little Amélie or the Character of Rain” first communicates in voiceover from the void of nothingness before birth.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025
Old sceptics, hard-bitten by a quarter of a century of nothingness, were beginning to turn.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025
Winning makes you confront the nothingness at the end of it all.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2024
I sat down and stared in the microscope, into white nothingness.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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