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nihility en · NOUN

Etymology

From Renaissance Latin nihilitās, from Latin nihil (“nothing”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The state or fact of being nothing; nothingness, nullity; nonexistence.
   • 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. 2000, Gregg Easterbrook, “Review: The Quest for Quarks”, in The Wilson Quarterly, volume 24, number 1, page 110:
2. (countable, obsolete) A nonexistent thing; nothing.
   • Della Crusca says all past Actions are Nihilities; & that the immediate Instant is the whole of human Existence—A bad Accᵗ of it surely! 1788 December 26, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:

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