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Webster 1913 Edition


Nihility

Ni-hil′i-ty

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
nihilité
. See
Nihilism
.]
Nothingness; a state of being nothing.

Webster 1828 Edition


Nihility

NIHIL'ITY

,
Noun.
Nothingness; a state of being nothing.

Definition 2024


nihility

nihility

English

Noun

nihility (usually uncountable, plural nihilities)

  1. Nothingness, nullity.[1]
    • 2000, Gregg Easterbrook, "Review: The Quest for Quarks," The Wilson Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 1, p. 110:
      Paeans and even poems have been written to the esoteric nature of the smallest building blocks of matter: how they manifest as everywhere and nowhere, seem to have come out of emptiness, and at the ultimate level seem to be distilled from pure nihility.

References

    • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.