Definition of nothingness in English:
nothingness
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noun
1The absence or cessation of life or existence.
‘the fear of the total nothingness of death’- ‘Of course, there are also those who do not subscribe to any religious faith and who may believe that death leads to nothingness, oblivion.’
- ‘Not until life and existence implode into oblivion, nothingness, will the fighting end.’
- ‘I cannot think, though, that this means my father's life has come to nothingness with his death.’
- ‘A more important question is at stake: is nothingness synonymous with death?’
- ‘By risk he means being placed at the limit of death of and nothingness.’
- ‘Presumably death is a limit or a boundary, and the beyond of the limit of death is nothingness.’
- ‘Only in nothingness can nothing truly exist, and this is where Cecil was.’
- ‘It was that void; that gushing nothingness which she so feared.’
- ‘The more the man whispered, the more Michela found herself falling into a void of nothingness.’
- ‘She would then stare out, as if in her own little world, her own little void of nothingness.’
- ‘Already at the beginning of time, a great light shone into the void of nothingness.’
- ‘She was just about to give up, to stay in the nice, cold dark void of nothingness when a light appeared before her eyes.’
- ‘Indeed, it may be the fear of nothingness, of simply blinking out of existence which motivates many to take up their faiths.’
- ‘This absence of perception is absolute nothingness, the nothingness itself being beyond perception.’
- ‘With death, if he did not slide into nothingness, there would never be an escape.’
- ‘The large void, terrible in its complete nothingness, yawned again before me and around me and inside me.’
- ‘Swirls of nothingness embraced me and whispered to me of nothing, and everything.’
- ‘You are the being that gives form, albeit temporary, to my nothingness.’
- ‘Certain words drift into the realm of nothingness to be eminently forgotten.’
- ‘It is a love story in which denial becomes desire and the fundamental states of being and nothingness are put to the ultimate test.’
oblivion, non-existence, non-being, non-lifeView synonyms- 1.1Worthlessness; insignificance; unimportance.‘the nothingness of it all overwhelmed him’
- ‘All of this pales into nothingness, however, when faced with The Ghost's latest masterpiece.’
- ‘Sleep has muffled the last few days into nothingness.’
- ‘The hot weather we had last week deteriorated to gray nothingness here.’
unimportance, insignificance, triviality, pointlessness, uselessness, worthlessness, valuelessnessView synonyms
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