What's the difference between nonexistence and nothingness?

Nonexistence


Definition:

  • (n.) Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity.
  • (n.) A thing that has no existence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) KCl thus appears to induce an intermediate which is either nonexistent when omitted or in such low concentration as not to be readily detected.
  • (2) The correlations of C3, C4, CH50 and factor B with abnormal clearance and disease activity were weaker or nonexistent.
  • (3) Anterior segment involvement was slight or nonexistent, and damage to the retina and uvea was of a focal rather than of a diffuse nature.
  • (4) Although the use of anticancer agents can be associated with severe side effects, on a practical basis complications of therapy are minimal to nonexistent.
  • (5) Early or late mortality among patients with isolated aortic coarctation was nonexistent, and it was 28.5% in patients with other congenital heart defects.
  • (6) Compartmentalization of germ cells in the seminiferous epithelium, therefore, was nonexistent.
  • (7) Doxycycline and other antibiotics have been implicated in oral contraceptive (OC) failure, but information is sparse and studies of a doxycycline-OC interaction are nonexistent.
  • (8) This enzymatic activity probably contributes to the steady state level of micronuclear histone acetylation that is low or nonexistent.
  • (9) But most of them were the first members of their family to adopt the veil, the majority had no niqab-wearing peers, their attendance at their mosque was minimal, and their affiliation to any Islamic bodies almost nonexistent.
  • (10) In the case of Wistar and Sprague-Dawley rats, the boosting effect of IL-2 on NK levels was either poor or nonexistent.
  • (11) Previous functional studies with the rat jugular vein have shown alpha-adrenergically mediated contraction was minimal to nonexistent, yet this tissue relaxed in response to norepinephrine via beta 1 and to isoproterenol via beta 2-receptor activation.
  • (12) After the third attempt, successful capsulotomies are either very rare or nonexistent.
  • (13) A small dependence of the intracellular relaxation rate on extracellular paramagnetic agent concentration, assumed nonexistent with the HG method, is inferred from the new analysis.
  • (14) The court relied on testimony of medical experts that the risk to patients from general practitioners with AIDS could be reduced, by training and education, to nonexistence, and emphasized that confidentiality is of paramount importance to AIDS patients and therefore is in the public interest.
  • (15) The thermodynamic study suggests a quantitative relationship of radiopharmaceutical:protein = 1:1 and an almost nonexistent influence of the temperature, which means that the interacting forces in this process are relatively weak.
  • (16) Hence in both groups, the percentage PRL suppression was significantly reduced compared with the control group, and indeed nonexistent in cortisol-nonsuppressed patients.
  • (17) In most instances, the evaluation is incomplete or nonexistent.
  • (18) In contrast, the infiltration of B lymphocytes was virtually nonexistent with few or no sIgM positive cells present in the lesions after either 4 or 14 days of exposure to ozone.
  • (19) "So it's nonexistent and it's false that we are at the moment looking for a goalkeeper."
  • (20) Although human studies are nonexistent, in those experimental organisms tested, using accepted techniques, LSD proved to be, at best, a weak mutagen, if mutagenic at all.

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.