单词 | nullness |
释义 | nullnessn. The state or condition of being null; invalidity, nihility, nothingness. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] noughtOE unbeing1435 non-beingc1443 nullity?1573 non esse1585 not-beinga1586 unexistence1593 nihilhood1602 non-essence?1605 inexistence1623 never-being1633 nonentity1643 non-existence1646 no-being1651 inexistency1660 nihility1678 cipherhooda1680 vacuitya1711 nothingness1766 nihilism1856 thinglessness1874 not-ness1933 nullness1949 1949 E. Bowen Heat of Day xvii. 301 The coming of winter to a stop had been most felt in the absolute nullness of night. 1959 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 251 521 The wave-like character will appear in the intrinsically null properties of these metrics... The nullness will become apparent from the physical properties of the metrics. 1967 Punch 22 Nov. 795/2 This feeling of organic injury is caused by..an utter nullness of non-taste, a denatured, defused..triviality. 1993 Ann. Rev. Ecol. & Systematics 24 308 The truth about history cannot ever be known, but we need not become nihilists as a result. The possibility of excess exists in any intellectual wave, and although an excess of ‘nullness’ is not yet apparent, the danger of it can be anticipated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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