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nothingness

nothingness noun: the state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing.

Noun

nothingness (usually uncountable, plural nothingnesses)

  1. (usually) The state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing.
    • A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness; but still will keep / A bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 3, lines 1–5
    • In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg and in his inaugural lecture made a pronouncement that earned him a reputation as an archetypal metaphysician with his claim that our awareness of people as a whole depends on our experience of dread in the face of...2014 April 12, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler's philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R11
  2. (usually) A void; an emptiness.
  3. (usually) The quality of inconsequentiality; the lack of significance.

nothingness meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

nothingness in Hindi

nothingness
शून्य śūnya

nothingness in Urdu

عدم, بےوقعتی, فنا, خالی پن

nothingness in Malayalam

nullity, oblivion, blankness
ശൂന്യത, ഒന്നുമില്ലായ്മ, വിസ്മൃതി, ഒന്നുമില്ലാത്ത അവസ്ഥ, നാസ്തിത, നാസ്തിത്വം
insignificance, unimportance, triviality
നിസ്സാരത്വം, അപ്രധാനത, തുച്ഛത, ലഘുത, ലാഘവം, ബാലിശത്വം

nothingness in Kannada

ಇಲ್ಲಮೆ, ಇಲ್ಲವೆ, ಬತ್ತಲೆ, ರಿಕ್ತ, ಸೊನ್ನೆ, ಅಭಾವ

Examples of nothingness in a sentence

  • In Spain, whenever I recharged, I had descended into a dark blanket of nothingness.
  • An everlasting and immitigable nothingness, in the void of black and absolute−"
  • Leisurely the long hours ticked into nothingness, yet there was no sound from him.

All 12 example sentences with nothingness

Synonyms of nothingness

Antonyms

Forms of nothingness

pluralnothingnesses

Origin of nothingness

From nothing + -ness.

Questions about nothingness

What does nothingness mean?
Nothingness means the state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing.
What is nothingness in Hindi?
Nothingness in Hindi is शून्य (śūnya). See Nothingness meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is nothingness?
Nothingness is a noun.
What is the plural of nothingness?
The plural of nothingness is nothingnesses.

Words near nothingness in the dictionary

  1. nothingized
  2. nothingizes
  3. nothingizing
  4. nothingless
  5. nothingly
  6. nothingness
  7. nothingnesses
  8. nothingology
  9. nothings
  10. nothingth
  11. Nothingville

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nothingness (page history and authors); शून्य (Hindi) (page history and authors); nothingness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nothingness (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); nothingness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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