nulliversen.
/ˈnʌlᵻvəːs/, U.S. /ˈnələˌvərs/ Chiefly Philosophy.
A world devoid of any unifying principle or plan. Cf. multiverse n.
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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).
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