NOTHINGNESS Definition & Meaning

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nothingness

[ nuhth-ing-nis ]

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noun

the state of being nothing.
something that is nonexistent:
a view of humanity as suspended between infinity and nothingness.
lack of being; nonexistence:
The sound faded into nothingness.
unconsciousness or death:
She remembered a dizzy feeling, then nothingness.
utter insignificance, emptiness, or worthlessness; triviality:
The days followed one another in an endless procession of nothingness.
something insignificant or without value.

nothingness

/ ˈ��ʌθɪŋ��ɪ�� /

noun

the state or condition of being nothing; nonexistence
absence of consciousness or life
complete insignificance or worthlessness
something that is worthless or insignificant

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of nothingness¹

First recorded in 1625–35; nothing + -ness

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Mr Hampshire said in his witness statement that there was "nothing to hide" in the exchanges between Andrew and Xi – and they were full of "top-level nothingness", such as birthday wishes.

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“That’s what baseball’s all about. These long periods of nothing happening and then bursts of action. I wanted to tease out those passages of nothingness and show that there’s actually a lot happening.”

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But Ginsberg cautioned that dehumanization “didn't propose a compassion or tenderness or mutual involvement or Buddha nature as an alternative. It proposed a complete annihilating void and nothingness.”

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Old sceptics, hard-bitten by a quarter of a century of nothingness, were beginning to turn.

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“It’s the nothingness and everythingness of the universe waking up and coming to know itself.”

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