nulliversen.

Brit.

/ˈnʌlᵻvəːs/, U.S.

/ˈnələˌvərs/

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nulli- comb. form, universe n.

Etymology: < nulli- comb. form + -verse (in universe n.). Compare multiverse n.

Chiefly Philosophy.

A world devoid of any unifying principle or plan. Cf. multiverse n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [noun] > world without order

nulliverse1847

1847 J. J. G. Wilkinson in tr. E. Swedenborg Outl. Philos. Argument Infinite Introd. p. xvii [He] made of the universe an incoherent nulliverse, a whirl of fleeting sequences, and a delirious ‘chase of Pan’.

1882 W. James in Mind 7 192 The world..is pure incoherence, a chaos, a nulliverse, to whose haphazard sway I will not truckle.

1970 Jrnl Amer. Hist. 56 813 The universe projected by Wright and others was so neutral and fragmented as to be ‘nihilistic’—James once referred to it as a ‘nulliverse’.

1993 Slavic Rev. 52 479 For if an exception to lawfulness could happen, what holds the universe together? We would have not a universe but a nulliverse, intellectuals tend to feel.

2001 Irish Times (Nexis) 15 Dec. 67 For James, the core of Wright's thinking was inimical; against the ‘pluriverse’, he felt, Wright had set a ‘nulliverse’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nulliverse
释义	nulliversen. Brit. /ˈnʌlᵻvəːs/, U.S. /ˈnələˌvərs/ Forms: also with capital initial. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nulli- comb. form, universe n. Etymology: < nulli- comb. form + -verse (in universe n.). Compare multiverse n. Chiefly Philosophy. A world devoid of any unifying principle or plan. Cf. multiverse n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [noun] > world without order nulliverse1847 1847 J. J. G. Wilkinson in tr. E. Swedenborg Outl. Philos. Argument Infinite Introd. p. xvii [He] made of the universe an incoherent nulliverse, a whirl of fleeting sequences, and a delirious ‘chase of Pan’. 1882 W. James in Mind 7 192 The world..is pure incoherence, a chaos, a nulliverse, to whose haphazard sway I will not truckle. 1970 Jrnl Amer. Hist. 56 813 The universe projected by Wright and others was so neutral and fragmented as to be ‘nihilistic’—James once referred to it as a ‘nulliverse’. 1993 Slavic Rev. 52 479 For if an exception to lawfulness could happen, what holds the universe together? We would have not a universe but a nulliverse, intellectuals tend to feel. 2001 Irish Times (Nexis) 15 Dec. 67 For James, the core of Wright's thinking was inimical; against the ‘pluriverse’, he felt, Wright had set a ‘nulliverse’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1847
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