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Definition of Nothingness

1. Noun. The state of nonexistence.

2. Noun. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk. "Don't give me any of that jazz"

Definition of Nothingness

1. n. Nihility; nonexistence.

Definition of Nothingness

1. Noun. State of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing. ¹

2. Noun. Void; emptiness. ¹

3. Noun. Quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nothingness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nothingness

nothing ball nothing doing nothing flat nothing like nothing special nothing to it nothing to see nothing to sneeze at nothing to write home about nothing ventured, nothing gained

nothingarian nothingarianism nothingarians nothingism nothingness (current term) nothingnesses nothings nothogenus nothosaur nothospecies

nothura nothuras noticable notice notice board notice boards noticeability noticeable noticeableness

Literary usage of Nothingness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The End of the Middle Ages: Essays and Questions in History by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson (1889)
"Sink thou only into thy nothingness, and the better part is thine." IV. ... As a fact, this frenzy after nothingness cost the Church more heresies than any ..."

2. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1908)
"Such an impression may inform the soul with a devout mingled sense of grandeur and nothingness, or it may blacken into cynicism and antinomian living for ..."

3. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1898)
"Such an impression may inform the soul with a devout mingled sense of grandeur and nothingness, or it may blacken into cynicism and antinomian living for ..."

4. Principles of the Interior Or Hidden Life: Designed Particularly for the by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1858)
"ON THE TRUE IDEA OF INTERIOR ANNIHILATION OP nothingness. WHEN we use the phrase " interior annihilation," vre of course use it in a mitigated or qualified ..."

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