Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Nonexistence; nothingness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being nothing, or of no account or importance; nothingness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Nothingness; a state of being nothing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of nonexistence
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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All the conflict of faith and doubt, the distress roused by the idea of nihility, the anger he had felt at the unjust sufferings of mankind, had been swept away by her fresh cool hands.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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All the conflict of faith and doubt, the distress roused by the idea of nihility, the anger he had felt at the unjust sufferings of mankind, had been swept away by her fresh cool hands.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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All the conflict of faith and doubt, the distress roused by the idea of nihility, the anger he had felt at the unjust sufferings of mankind, had been swept away by her fresh cool hands.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 4 ��mile Zola 1871
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Maybe it scares the hell out of you, but perhaps you yearn for it too … the nihility, the nothingness because it's your essence, your embodiment.
The Door 2010
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Embrace the solace that accompanies the wave of dark nihility.
The Door 2010
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Embrace the solace that accompanies the wave of dark nihility.
The Door Kari Gremore 2010
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Maybe it scares the hell out of you, but perhaps you yearn for it too ... the nihility, the nothingness because it's your essence, your embodiment.
The Door Kari Gremore 2010
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Has any one been ever able to answer his question: Speed an arrow from the limits of the world — will it fall into nothing, into nihility?
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So that this much touted Caribbean Diaspora conference and meeting with President Bush may very well be an exercise in nihility given the fact that an incoming president – Democrat or Republican – is not bound by any law or principle to respect the positions set out in the communiqué.
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His profoundest desire, he said, was todie, to know, at last, “complete unconciousness, total nihility, a final end to dreaming, the last and only salvation.”
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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