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  • noun Plural form of nothingness.

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Examples

  • As the softness of the cushions sank into her heart, and mellow nothingnesses from well-trained voices greeted her ears, and the air of wealth and idleness floated about her cheeks, her imagination rose within her and assured her that she could secure something better than Bragton.

    The American Senator 2004

  • What cannot be forgiven to the man who writes of “faint whisperings that come from forest and river as if millions of nothingnesses kept streaming and streaming,” and who finds in those whisperings

    Under the Autumn Star 2003

  • The shadows were vague and nebulous, blending off into nothingnesses at their edges.

    The Moon Maid 1923

  • But they look in vain for this second eternal youth in their elders, filled with worldly nothingnesses and things of temporary importance.

    The Education of the Child 1910

  • He would have liked to know and understand Bob, just as the latter would have liked to know and understand him, but they were separated by a wide gulf in which whirled the nothingnesses of training and temperament.

    The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909

  • Already in the little nothingnesses of manner, the trifles of mental and bodily attitude, she had assumed that faint trace of the maternal which to the observant tells so plainly that a woman has given herself to a man.

    The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909

  • His sense of humor takes the same unexpected slants, not because his mental processes differ from those of other men, but because he is unshackled by the subtle and unnoticed nothingnesses of precedent which deflect our action toward the common uniformity of our neighbors.

    The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909

  • I thank China for reminding me that they are cheap and nasty nothingnesses at the best!

    The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

  • What cannot be forgiven to the man who writes of "faint whisperings that come from forest and river as if millions of nothingnesses kept streaming and streaming," and who finds in those whisperings "one eternity coming to an understanding with another eternity about something"?

    Wanderers Knut Hamsun 1905

  • His sense of humor takes the same unexpected slants, not because his mental processes differ from those of other men, but because he is unshackled by the subtle and unnoticed nothingnesses of precedent which deflect our action toward the common uniformity of our neighbors.

    The Mountains 1904

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  • Quite.

    July 18, 2016

  • But does a nothingness comprise all potential other forms of nothingness, and hence require no plural?

    July 18, 2016