nothingness

noun

noth·​ing·​ness ˈnə-thiŋ-nəs How to pronounce nothingness (audio)
1
: the quality or state of being nothing: such as
b
: utter insignificance
c
: death
2
: something insignificant or valueless
3

Examples of nothingness in a Sentence

He was staring into nothingness. The sound faded into nothingness.
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The point is to bring production back to California before the entertainment industry shrinks into nothingness. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 9 May 2025 Picture those Void rooms: this very kind of hellish place where all angles are skewed and the different gravity rooms are glued to each other in the middle of black nothingness. Chris Lee, Vulture, 6 May 2025 Worse still, perhaps, at times general-purpose generative AI will produce a heaping of psychobabble, seemingly impressive sounding mental health advice that is nothing more than babbling psychological words of nothingness, see my analysis at the link here. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025 The Padres’ winter of nonsense and nothingness is no more. Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nothingness

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1631, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of nothingness was circa 1631

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“Nothingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nothingness. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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