nothingness
Collocations
4ADJ.
bewildered, faded, still
VERB + NOTHINGNESS
dreams, evaporated, fade, found, help, pass, void
NOTHINGNESS + NOUN
everyone, universe
PREP.
in, into
Definitions
noun
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.
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 nothingness.
A void; an emptiness.
The quality of inconsequentiality; the lack of significance.
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6A 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
WiktionaryIn 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
WiktionaryFiona felt trapped in a void of nothingness.
Tatoeba · #8681042Tom's dreams faded into nothingness.
Tatoeba · #9485165I've read that there was nothing but nothingness in the universe before the Big Bang.
Tatoeba · #9496211I wanted to know who could answer my cry for help, I found nothingness.
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