Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: nothingness
IPA transcription: [n'ʌθɪŋnəs]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: wind, malarkey, malarky, idle_words, jazz, nothingness
    Meaning: empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"
  • Synonyms: nothingness, void, nullity, nihility
    Meaning: the state of nonexistence
Usage examples
  • This evil is nothingness; so death is the absence of life.
  • He was falling backward into nothingness, into an everlasting gulf of night that yawned for him....
  • Nothing mattered, therefore, even though they two were plunged into that awful nothingness of the fifth dimension, where neither space nor time recognizably exists.
  • A sense of change, of individual nothingness, of perplexity and disappointment, over-powered Margaret. Nothing had been the same; and this slight, all-pervading instability, had given her greater pain than if all had been too entirely changed for her to recognise it.
  • If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness.