Definition of Nothingness

1. Noun. The state of nonexistence.

Exact synonyms: Nihility, Nullity, Void
Generic synonyms: Nonentity, Nonexistence
Specialized synonyms: Thin Air
Derivative terms: Void

2. Noun. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk. "Don't give me any of that jazz"
Exact synonyms: Idle Words, Jazz, Malarkey, Malarky, Wind
Generic synonyms: Talk, Talking
Derivative terms: Windy

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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