nothingness

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

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Recent Examples of nothingness 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 From there, the movie around her is soon reduced to a nothingness of its own making. Chase Hutchinson, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025 Alexander Vilenkin, meanwhile, has suggested that the universe instead emerged spontaneously from a state of nothingness via a strange quantum mechanics phenomenon known as quantum tunneling. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nothingness
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Noun
  • In the first half of this season, two major league pitchers — Boston’s Liam Hendriks and Houston’s Lance McCullers Jr. — received anonymous death threats on social media and denounced them.
    Maria Torres, New York Times, 15 July 2025
  • His wife's manner of death has been listed as a homicide.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • The Young Bucks hit the TK Driver to Swerve on the outside, leaving Ospreay dead to rights.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
  • In Kerr County, home to Camp Mystic and other youth camps, searchers have found 16 bodies since Saturday afternoon, bringing the total number of dead there to 59, including 21 children, said Sheriff Larry Leitha.
    Jim Vertuno, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2025
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  • Among infants, these disparities in mortality were driven largely by sudden unexpected infant death and prematurity.
    Maria Godoy, NPR, 8 July 2025
  • There's direct mortality from equipment, earthmoving vehicles—such as turtles and cactuses getting crushed.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025

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“Nothingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nothingness. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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