nihil
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 5
/ˈnɪ.hɪl/
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/ˈnɪ.hɪl/ · /ˈniː(h)ɪl/ · /ˈnaɪ(h)ɪl/ · /-əl/
Definition of nihil
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable)A nihil dicit.
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noun
- (countable)A nihil dicit.
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(uncountable)nothingness, nonbeing
“I shall no longer believe all the visions of my youth: They have dissolved into nihil.”
“All tales about the beginning are apt to eliminate the nothing and make being overall. […] Without Nihil the whirlpool of the beginning settles down and becomes a stagnant puddle of pure being. Nihil disappears.”
“That is, in the sovereign act of creation, whereby YHWH orders chaos, YHWH provisionally defeated the power of the Nihil but did not destroy or eliminate the threat of chaos.”
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Etymology
From Latin nihil, nil.
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