What's the difference between nihility and nothingness?

Nihility


Definition:

  • (n.) Nothingness; a state of being nothing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Quod Nihil Scitur" (That's that nothing we know) is a philosophical open, "adogmatic" and liberal form of scepticism.
  • (2) The problem of a hermeneutic psychiatry would be to steer between the Scylla of naive realism ignoring the major participation of the psychotherapist on the one hand, and the Charybdis of relativism, nihilism, and hopeless skepticism on the other.
  • (3) Therefore the structure of a prenatal diagnostics centre must to a great extent observe the "Nihil nocere".
  • (4) Low CMAPs should not lead to therapeutic nihilism, because it may simply be caused by demyelination without exonal degeneration in CIDP.
  • (5) Farewell bleak nihilism; the cold assurances that all is meaningless.
  • (6) It's hard to see why any party around the world would emulate such nihilism."
  • (7) Therapeutic nihilism or deliberate acceptance of pseudoarthrotic healing, therefore, cannot be justified in treatment of avulsion fractures of the epicondylus medialis humeri.
  • (8) Though it may be true that, in the absence of a dependable cause, there is no single cure for inflammatory diseases of the locomotor system, nevertheless there is no reason for therapeutic nihilism.
  • (9) The psychiatric profession's therapeutic nihilism toward the elderly may reflect unresolved countertransference issues that result in a form of prejudice called "ageism."
  • (10) On the other hand therapeutic nihilism cannot be recommended.
  • (11) Even more disturbing, perhaps, is the threat of moral nihilism.
  • (12) There has been a sense of anomie in the CBC’s broadcasts during these playoffs, and on Wednesday it seemed to have finally morphed into full-blown nihilism.
  • (13) The overriding principle in surgery should always be "nihil nocere".
  • (14) Others confess through their mass rapes, choreographed murders and rational self-justifications a primary fealty to nihilism: that characteristically modern-day and insidiously common doctrine that makes it impossible for modern-day Raskolnikovs to deny themselves anything, and possible to justify anything.
  • (15) But while the scars of apartheid unquestionably run deep, other voices warn against nihilism.
  • (16) Anorectal surgery in HIV+ patients historically has been viewed with a great deal of nihilism.
  • (17) If the political mainstream parties cannot devise a viable response, and quickly, then Britain – like Italy – could find itself overshadowed by the nihilism of an insurgent anti-politics party.
  • (18) I don’t agree with someone like Russell Brand who advocates not voting – it’s pure nihilism, it’s not going to do any good.
  • (19) At the same time, the presence of a very low CD4 count alone should not be considered a reason for therapeutic nihilism.
  • (20) In his essay, however, he began with a confession of his complete ignorance as to the mechanism of secretion: 'Multa in physiologicis obscura sunt, obscurius hac ipsa functione nihil'.

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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