nothingness
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈnʌθɪŋnəs/
:
nada
- The philosopher spoke of nothingness as the absence of being and existence.
- absurdity and nothingness
- pure nothingness
- absolute nothingness
There's just this blank, dark nothingness going on there.
- There's just this blank, dark nothingness going on there.
- I was always searching for oblivion, you know, just the nothingness, you know.
- Die of of thinning out into nothingness.
- So the center of this tattoo means the void, that which is nothingness.
- I feel like there's been like a pattern for me of just pure nothingness.
- That's right this whole God damn rock floating into this black nothingness.
- The new object contains the nothingness of the first.
- So this disclosure of nothingness opens up some possibilities for us.
- So it's a, it's a nothingness just like a general anaesthetic.
- Find out what doubt and fear needs to dissipate into the nothingness that it always was.
Examples
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Not the nothingness of empty space, but real nothingness, which has no size and no time.
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If the laws of physics still apply, does that area of nothingness contain nothing?
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Hundreds of miles of nothingness, just you and Mother Nature herself.
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Then tell me about nothingness.
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In the midst of nothingness we are.
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Without them I'm lost in this nothingness.
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We are left with a vast field of unfathomable nothingness of light, air and water.
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I was always searching for oblivion, you know, just the nothingness, you know.
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In effect, because of Godot's absence, nothingness occurs and the experience of nothingness happens.
Academic text (1997) -
With each breath of his name, the authentic ghost of the man would dim one shade at a time into nothingness.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Not anything of interest or value
182
6.5
A very empty space or feeling that is hard to fill
77
4.2
A space with no air or other matter
30
8.3
The state of having no value, result, or importance
19
9.9
Not anything or zero
14
3.6
A space or place that has nothing in it
7
8.5
Nothing at all
6
9.4
Nothing at all
5
7.0
A state in which something is not there
4
4.3
A feeling of emptiness with no thoughts or emotion
3
9.9
A state in which things do not have their own separate, lasting existence
1
9.8
The state of not existing
1
9.2
A state of being empty of meaning and thought
A state in which nothing exists
A situation when something does not exist
An empty space with nothing inside
Antonyms
How Empty
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nothingness comes from the familiar word nothing, which is no- + thing, where no- means 'not' and thing means 'object', and the ending -ness turns it into a word for a 'state'. So nothingness is the 'state of being no thing', which is why it means a complete lack of anything.