(n.) Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something.
(n.) Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness.
(n.) A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.
(n.) A cipher; naught.
(adv.) In no degree; not at all; in no wise.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(2) Northern Ireland will not be dragged back by terrorists who have nothing but misery to offer."
(3) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
(4) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
(5) Almost nothing is known about nature and timing of the embryonic cues which induce or initiate spicule formation by these cells.
(6) If Queensland goes ahead and develops and dredges Abbot Point, it may all be for nothing.
(7) Meanwhile the Brooklyn Nets, who have been dealing with nothing but bad news since the start of the regular season, will be without Paul Pierce for 2-4 weeks, also due to a right hand fracture.
(8) After violence had run its bloody course, the country’s rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but “grave disorder, damage and retrogression”.
(9) But there was a clear penalty on Diego Costa – it is a waste of time and money to have officials by the side of the goal because normally they do nothing – and David Luiz’s elbow I didn’t see, I confess.
(10) The three-year-old comes into the kitchen for a drink, and as Steve opens the fridge, I can see it contains nothing apart from a half-full bottle of milk.
(11) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
(12) She is not: "Religion has nothing to do with spirituality."
(13) The prime minister said: “I am taking absolutely nothing for granted.
(14) We always feel like it's Hobbitshire – a green valley where nothing happens."
(15) She says he wants his actors to be in a "second state", instinctive, holding nothing back.
(16) As for gay men, there is absolutely nothing that suggests they are any less war-happy than heterosexuals.
(17) Like Morton, Sevigny is an actor who holds nothing back from the camera.
(18) Answer, citing Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” This is a very British suicide.
(19) I’d argue, furthermore, that these preoccupations are preventing people from seeking support, as if nothing could be more the opposite of these things than admission of the need for help.
(20) Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe , may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conservationists could do to protect them, a conservation charity has warned.
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.