(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.
Void
Definition:
(a.) Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
(a.) Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like.
(a.) Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void of learning, or of common use.
(a.) Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
(a.) Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
(a.) Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2.
(n.) An empty space; a vacuum.
(a.) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table.
(a.) To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements.
(a.) To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify.
(v. i.) To be emitted or evacuated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stimulation with these electrodes were effective for inducing voiding with little residual volume after the recovery of bladder reflexes, 3 weeks after experimental spinal cord injury in the dog.
(2) The Lex antigen was present in the void volume fraction of the majority (85%) of sera from adenocarcinoma patients.
(3) To facilitate detoxification, the centrifuge is employed to provide plasma rich in toxins, but void of potentially interfering blood components such as platelets and whole blood cells.
(4) The acquisition of dryness is accelerated by eradication of bacteriuria and a sympathetic and energetic management regime, which should place responsibility on the child and result in the child voiding more frequently and completely.
(5) Excretory urogram revealed bilateral hydronephrosis and voiding cystogram revealed VUR on left ureter.
(6) Primary invasive adenocarcinoma of the bladder was diagnosed in a fifty-two-year-old male with a two-month history of irritative voiding symptoms.
(7) Residual urine volume and urine voiding efficiency are also calculated.
(8) During unstable detrusor contractions, which even in these healthy women are observed during bladder filling and also during inhibited voidings through the urethra, the contraction is weaker.
(9) Some of this LPS-associated polysaccharide eluted as the void volume of a G-100 column but differed from PS by its lack of galactose and arabinose.
(10) Cytological examination of voided urine is an established investigation in urological practice.
(11) At 12 months TURP had also improved micturition time and voided volume, which TUI had not.
(12) Chlamydia trachomatis was detected from first-voided urine sediments of 97 male patients with urethritis by polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
(13) SEM of the resulting surface showed rounded fragments of enamel rods, enamel melting, cracks, and smooth-edged voids.
(14) By 16 weeks, fibrocartilage had filled the void in the curetted disc spaces.
(15) Both the void volume protein peak and the procoagulant activity peak from the 0.25 M calcium chloride-agarose gel column support ristocetin-induced platelet aggregation.
(16) It is concluded that imaging of the urinary tract is not necessary for pure nightwetters, while ultrasonography or uroflowmetry and more sophisticated radiological or urological methods should be focused on those children with daytime wetting and clinical symptoms of voiding disturbances.
(17) Cation exchange chromatography on carboxymethylcellulose-Sephadex with a starting buffer of pH 5 containing 2 mM CHAPS plus 20 mM beta-OG, followed by a pH 8 buffer, showed a very small OD peak at the void volume (P) and a second peak with about 95% of the protein (E).
(18) The one peak which was common to both sera appeared with the void volume and was identified as albumin.
(19) The first peak eluted at the void volume containing lipoproteins, alpha 2- and beta 2-macroglobulins, and the second peak at the fraction of albumin.
(20) Oxendolone + bunazosin tended to show a better clinical efficacy than the other of these regimens, when the improvement was defined as that with more than one degree in the severity of retarded voiding, prolonged voiding, urinary stream condition, abdominal pressure on voiding and residual urine sensation.