Nihility
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Nihility is a noun meaning The state or fact of being nothing; nothingness, nullity; nonexistence.
Meaning
The state or fact of being nothing; nothingness, nullity; nonexistence.
More Meanings
- (obsolete, countable) A nonexistent thing; nothing.
Example Sentences
Della Crusca says all past Actions are Nihilities; & that the immediate Instant is the whole of human Existence—A bad Accᵗ of it surely!
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.
Word Forms
- nihilities
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nothingism, nothingness, nullness, nihil, nullity, nihilhood.
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