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nothingness

Definition of nothingnessnext
as in death
the state of being dead the inevitable nothingness that awaits all of us

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Recent Examples of nothingness Known as cosmic inflation, this strange, fleeting period is usually considered to have been an expansion of near nothingness because, at the time, most of the universe’s elementary particles had yet to blink into existence. Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2025 This would not have been a serious consideration midway through Newcastle’s 2-0 win against struggling, flailing Nottingham Forest — the nothingness of half-time was like a blessed relief — but a stodgy, slow-burning afternoon concluded with Howe’s team comfortable and edging towards dominance. George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025 The deepest depths of space still hold the nothingness record, reaching below 10-20 Pa. IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2025 The meme seemed to perfectly capture the dynamic on-screen too, the show’s principals burning the avatars of meaning in a pot of hot-water nothingness. Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for nothingness
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Noun
  • The research accounted for reduced availability of key nutrients in seafood, including calcium, omega-3 fatty acids, protein and iron -- the loss of which can be linked to increases in disease risk and additional deaths.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Evan Peters and Rebecca Hall play government agents investigating some mysterious deaths of some very hot people, with Isabella Rossellini and Anthony Ramos also starring.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • But fear of the difficult dead neither originated in nor has been confined to the nineteenth-century European re-imaginings of Vlad the Impaler.
    Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Citizens commune not just with deceased relatives but with the undifferentiated mass of anonymous dead.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • There is, in the end, a deadness to its clichés about writers and their subjects.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
  • But then there is that deadness that enters into the closing chapters, which might as easily be called inexorability.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The vast, indifferent Moroccan desert acts as a major character, stripping the human characters bare and forcing a primal confrontation with mortality, loss, and the unconstrained forces of nature.
    Robert Lang, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Pettini said since 2020, the program has reduced mortality in trauma, shootings, and stabbings, as well as medical cases such as gastrointestinal bleeds and postpartum hemorrhage.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2026

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“Nothingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nothingness. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.

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