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nothingness Definition

noth·ing·ness (-nis)

noun

  1. the quality or condition of being nothing or not existing; nonexistence or extinction
  2. lack of value, worth, meaning, etc.; uselessness, emptiness, insignificance, etc.
  3. unconsciousness or death
  4. anything that is nonexistent, worthless, insignificant, useless, etc.

nothingness Synonyms

nothingness

n.

  1. Void

    vacuum, blank, hollowness; see emptiness, nothing, oblivion 2.

  2. Worthlessness

    pettiness, unimportance, smallness; see insignificance.

nothingness Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • death: The unfortunates should have been respected, even in the coldness and nothingness of death.
  • reading: I want to argue that it is precisely this seeming nothingness of reading that should concern us today.
  • scorn: We shall not vanish into the nothingness of scorn and noise.

Converse of object

  • experience: It became easier and easier to be still, experiencing the lovely, inner nothingness of peace.
  • imagine: I assume that I'm not the only one, so why do we find it so hard to imagine true nothingness?
  • represent: The sheer scale makes the contemplation of this painting almost impossible: a vast canvas representing an absolute nothingness.

Adjective modifier

  • absolute: Is this God, is this absolute nothingness, is this death?
  • own: It is the attribute of the humble, those who have realized their own nothingness, those who have failed in love.
  • eternal: Different attitudes to what happened after death, including systems of eternal reward and punishment; belief in eternal nothingness; and ghosts.
  • black: In a black nothingness, not in my body.
  • seeming: I want to argue that it is precisely this seeming nothingness of reading that should concern us today.
  • vast: There are a few isolated pockets of enlightened officers and members but they can hardly be recognized amidst the vast nothingness which prevails.

Preposition: in

  • front: He froze on the spot and fixed his gaze on the nothingness in front of him.
  • order: Why did God choose this moment of nothingness rather than that moment of nothingness in order to create the universe?
nothingness Quotes

   A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

—Keats,John

Todo se ha escrito, todo se ha dicho, todo se ha hecho, oyo¤   Dios que le dec|¤an y a u¤ n no hab|¤a creado el mundo, todav|¤a no hab|¤a nada.Tambie¤  n eso ya me lo han dicho, repuso quiza¤   desde la vieja, hendida Nada.Ycomenzo¤  . Everything has been written, everything has been said, everything has been made: that's what God heard before creating the world, when there was nothing yet. I have also heard that one, he may have answered from the old, split Nothingness. And then he began.

—Ferna¤ n dez, Macedonio