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How to use nothingness in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Nothingness means the state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing. Example: “In Spain, whenever I recharged, I had descended into a dark blanket of nothingness.”

More sentences with nothingness

  • In Spain, whenever I recharged, I had descended into a dark blanket of nothingness.2014, Matt Haig, Echo Boy, page 247. From the entry unsleep
  • An everlasting and immitigable nothingness, in the void of black and absolute−"1949, Peter de Vries, chapter 13, in The Tunnel of Love, New York: Popular Library, published 1978, page 149. From the entry immitigable
  • Leisurely the long hours ticked into nothingness, yet there was no sound from him.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry agonizingly
  • Such pictures of nothing, or of nothingness, although certainly worthy of careful consideration, are not the subject of this book.2025, Robert Couzin, Unrepresented: the Suppression of Images in the Middle Ages, page 5. From the entry unrepresentation
  • Then a period of complete and utter nothingness - not a thought, not a vision, not a sound, nothing.2017, Michael Wise, On the Toss of a Coin, page 13. From the entry complete and utter
  • The transitory element of living called death, therefore, points from the nothingness of death to the everythingness of life hereafter.2002, P. N. Wachege, Living to Die, Dying to Live: African Christian Insights. From the entry everythingness
  • The non-plussedness at still being there, so close to one’s nothingness and littleness, is a new kind of peace.1978, Kevin O’Shea, The Way of Tenderness, New York, N.Y.; Ramsey, N.J.; Toronto, Ont.: Paulist Press, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry non-plussedness
  • Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 190. From the entry abyss
  • The edge appears as a boundary of razor-sharp obsidian glass with a hazy gray area of nothingness extending a few feet beyond it.1980, TSR, Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition, page 52. From the entry multiversal
  • Most of us make sense of the world through talk and sight, and breathers represent that most anxiety provoking experience, nothingness with a hint of possibility.1981 April 25, Martin H. Krieger, “Phone Calls”, in Gay Community News, page 12. From the entry breather
  • This gray, a strain on the eyes, should look familiar to any player character accustomed to multiversal travel; this is the nothingness between the planes of reality.1980, TSR, Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition, page 52. From the entry multiversal
  • Magda B., engulfed in non-activity, non-being, nothingness, situationlessness, was not, I think, frustrated or tormented like Rose R.; she was becalmed, asleep, on the ocean of life.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings. From the entry situationlessness

Meaning of nothingness

  1. noun The state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing.
  2. noun A void; an emptiness.
  3. noun The quality of inconsequentiality; the lack of significance.

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Questions about nothingness in a sentence

How do you use nothingness in a sentence?
Nothingness is used as a noun. For example: “In Spain, whenever I recharged, I had descended into a dark blanket of nothingness.”
What is a short sentence with nothingness?
“Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.”
What does nothingness mean?
Nothingness means the state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing.

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