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单词 nothingness
释义

nothingness

noun

noth·​ing·​ness ˈnə-thiŋ-nəs How to pronounce nothingness (audio)
1
: the quality or state of being nothing: such as
a
: nonexistence
b
: utter insignificance
c
: death
2
: something insignificant or valueless
3
: void, emptiness

Synonyms

  • dead
  • deadness
  • death
  • grave
  • lifelessness
  • sleep
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Example Sentences

He was staring into nothingness. The sound faded into nothingness.
Recent Examples on the Web Sūnya, nulla, ṣifr, zevero, zip and zilch are among the many names of the mathematical concept of nothingness. Scientific American, 28 July 2022 Those slices turned absence — the fissure of nothingness left by the knife — into new kinds of paint, swelling lines of darkness arcing across the picture plane. Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 28 June 2022 The brainchild of Derrickson, designer Tom Savini and fabricator Jason Baker, the masks convey three exaggerated expressions of the villain: joy, despair and utter nothingness in a haunting reinterpretation of the traditional comedy/tragedy masks. Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2022 Mass apathy, for all its lonely nothingness, may not be an absence after all—but rather evidence of our overwhelming need to connect, and then to heal. Marion Renault, The New Republic, 21 Jan. 2022 This song is about the burden of existing beneath a veil of nothingness. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2022 As is explained, the Hubble, despite some scientific debate, was allowed to peer into a seemingly black patch of nothingness. John Anderson, WSJ, 12 July 2022 The mass of nothingness is believed to be 5,000 light years away in the Carina-Sagittarius spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 15 June 2022 At one point during our conversation, Otake opens a bottle of bubbly rosé just to celebrate the grand nothingness of being alive on this day. Amanda Lee Koe, Vogue, 25 May 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1631, in the meaning defined at sense 1

nothingness

noun

as in dead
the state of being dead the inevitable nothingness that awaits all of us

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • dead
  • death
  • deadness
  • lifelessness
  • mortality
  • grave
  • sleep

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • existence
  • life
  • immortality
  • lifetime
  • life span
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