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nothingness(dictionary)

nothingness (iou)



nothingness noun. M17.
[from NOTHING + -NESS.]
The state or condition of being non-existent or nothing; non-existence; that which is non-existent; absence or cessation of consciousness or of life. M17.
S. Beckett All will vanish and we'll be alone again, in the midst of nothingness. Times Plans can slip away to nothingness.
Utter insignificance or unimportance; the condition of being worthless; that which has no value; the worthlessness or vanity of something. M17.
Byron Must I restrain me..From holding up the nothingness of life? J. A. Symonds Many..have found a deep peace in the sense of their own nothingness.
A non-existent thing; a state of non-existence or worthlessness; an absence of consciousness or of life; a thing of no value; an insignificant act or concern. M17.
D. Durrant Patty was busying herself with small nothingnesses. D. Rowe Where there was once a person will be a nothingness.