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Nihility   Listen
noun
Nihility  n.  Nothingness; a state of being nothing.






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"Nihility" Quotes from Famous Books



... inanity of sublunary things has afforded a theme to philosophers, moralists, and divines, from the earliest records of antiquity; "Vanity of vanities!" says the preacher, "all is vanity!" Nor is there any one, I suppose, who has passed the meridian of life, who has not at some moments felt the nihility of all things. ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... never have wooed by kisses and won, or he would not have flounder-flatted so just and humorous, nor less pleasing than humorous, an image into so profound a nihility. In the name of love and wonder, do not four kisses make a double affirmative? The humour lies in the whispered "No!" and the inviting "Don't!" with which the maiden's kisses are accompanied, and thence compared to negatives, which ...
— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge



Words linked to "Nihility" :   void, thin air, nonentity, nullity, nonexistence



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