nihility
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Definition of nihility
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)The state or fact of being nothing; nothingness, nullity; nonexistence.
“Paeans and even poems have been written to the esoteric nature of the smallest building blocks of matter: how they manifest as everywhere and nowhere, seem to have come out of emptiness, and at the ultimate level seem to be distilled from pure nihility.”
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noun
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(countable, uncountable)The state or fact of being nothing; nothingness, nullity; nonexistence.
“Paeans and even poems have been written to the esoteric nature of the smallest building blocks of matter: how they manifest as everywhere and nowhere, seem to have come out of emptiness, and at the ultimate level seem to be distilled from pure nihility.”
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(countable, obsolete)A nonexistent thing; nothing.
“Della Crusca says all past Actions are Nihilities; & that the immediate Instant is the whole of human Existence—A bad Accᵗ of it surely!”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Renaissance Latin nihilitās, from Latin nihil (“nothing”).
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