What's the difference between inconsequentiality and nothingness?

Inconsequentiality


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being inconsequential.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's a declaration of exclusion: West is not a member in good standing of DC's Foreign Policy Community, and therefore his views can and should be ignored as Unserious and inconsequential.
  • (2) It is possible, however, that neither drug can alter the natural course of this disease and may just hasten its expected inconsequential resolution.
  • (3) The structural underpinnings of these internal problems are assumed inconsequential and not addressed, and so is the international dimension.
  • (4) A cursory web search would have helped but fewer of us bother when the news is relatively inconsequential.
  • (5) To cap all this, it appears that Tesco may have massaged its bottom line by a not inconsequential quarter of a billion pounds.
  • (6) Recognizing that states may soon prove inconsequential to the discussion, the Democratic frontrunner, Hillary Clinton, last week shifted her stance and came out in support of gay marriage as a constitutional right.
  • (7) If the British government wants the best of its teachers to stick around and deliver this on home soil, it needs to provide good reasons for them to do so – and they need to be better reasons than flimsy, inconsequential pre-election workload surveys and 1% pay increases .
  • (8) There are pages where, unexpectedly, amid the horror, a reader feels he has stumbled on a near-inconsequential diary entry.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Uruguay captain, Diego Lugano, describes Luis Suárez's alleged bite during their final World Cup group match against Italy as inconsequential After considering footage of the incident, including angles not shown on television, and other material including witness statements and the referee’s report, Sulser’s committee will decide on a sanction and whether it should apply to all matches or just international fixtures.
  • (10) A seven-year total population survey from south-east Queensland has revealed that, in practice, the rate of clinical poisoning due to oleander is inconsequential, and mortality is negligible.
  • (11) Halothane (0.5 mM) did not inhibit phorbol ester- or ionomycin-induced PRL secretion, indicating that halothane has inconsequential effects on the secretory apparatus.
  • (12) 1 intubation failure, 5 failures in coelioscopy, 5 uterine perforations, and 5 inconsequential vascular wounds were noted, bringing the overall rare of morbidity to 1.2%.
  • (13) On the other hand, costs of screening are not inconsequential, and costs involved in follow-up procedures are high.
  • (14) Using a grading scale for complications, 24 percent of patients had inconsequential complications, 16 percent had moderate complications, and 19 percent had severe complications.
  • (15) However, the incidence of breast cancer is shown in a number of case-controlled retrospective studies to be unaffected by OC use, except for certain subsets of statistically inconsequential numbers.
  • (16) If others share these findings, the implications for control of this disease are frightening, as the risk of transmission to patients' sexual partners is not inconsequential.
  • (17) But Harding's solution to the inconsequentiality of What's My Line?
  • (18) Liposomes prepared from octyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside-extracted YAC-1 and NK-enriched effector cell membranes interfered with conjugate formation, whereas liposomes prepared from NK-insensitive P815 cells were inconsequential.
  • (19) The observed elevations in skin temperatures were physiologically inconsequential.
  • (20) Adverse effects were inconsequential and comparable in both groups.

Nothingness


Definition:

  • (n.) Nihility; nonexistence.
  • (n.) The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But for the next few hours, though, there's little to excite us: Joseph Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) The economic data calendar is a desolate wasteland of nothingness.
  • (2) We should be profoundly grateful that someone standing on the edge of nothingness could send out and bounce back thoughts and feelings from beyond the limits of mortality to confound and catalyse us all over again.
  • (3) Across a narrow seafront road, a camp for people fleeing drought and fighting has unfurled in the sandy nothingness.
  • (4) In a new book of essays entitled The Adventure of French Philosophy , Badiou argues that between the appearance of Sartre's Being and Nothingness in 1943 and the publication of Deleuze and Guattari's What Is Philosophy?
  • (5) And, if it is nothing, is it nothing expressed with fury or nothing expressed with nothingness?
  • (6) If I don’t, I’ve got to get a real job.” His claim did seem a little disingenuous as Quickenden is already a TV presenter, managed by a company whose clients include Syco, but his sentiment was clear: this was make or break, all or nothing, and he was desperate to avoid the broken nothingness of real work.
  • (7) It is convenient to see the Vichy regime as born of nothingness, returned to nothingness .
  • (8) Any one of them would have been preferable to the crashing, aching nothingness that I actually felt.
  • (9) We are invited to deepen an already failed experiment in libertarian individualism in which we each become selfish atoms in a social nothingness.
  • (10) - in a particularly large zone of nothingness down the right.
  • (11) "IMHO Amazon is wasting a lot of time and money creating massive nothingness."
  • (12) A god of absence, of null, of nothingness – a god with no specific given name: somehow this seems more frightening than all the angry thunderbolt-throwers and purveyors of fire-and-brimstone put together.
  • (13) Later, he will climb to the top of a steep hill, and into the windy nothingness bellow Partridge's famous catchphrase: "Ah-HAAAAAA!"
  • (14) It’s just a tattoo,” he says, when the silence goes on so long that we have nearly fallen over the edge of it into a pit of black nothingness.
  • (15) As she spends nine incredible months slugging across 1,700 miles of intense nothingness, sunburn is the least of her worries.
  • (16) Parallels between ego-identity and existentialist approaches are examined and identity is described in terms of existentialist concepts formulated by Martin Heidegger (Being and Time) and Jean-Paul Sartre (Being and Nothingness).
  • (17) For all the airiness of their themes, however, the three men were never painters of nothingness.
  • (18) I think that was the over-riding sense; there was a feeling of nothingness."
  • (19) He wrote: "No more inglorious, downright disgraced and discredited team or ­sportsmen wearing the badge of 'England' can ever have returned through customs with such nothingness to declare."
  • (20) He was gone by the time I was three, presumably sucked into nothingness.

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