nihility
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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There are many things on the Earth, which would be nihility to the inhabitants of Venus—many things visible and tangible in Venus, which we could not be brought to appreciate as existing at all.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Poe, Edgar Allan
At the happiest periods of my existence I often became a prey to grim dejection such as nobody could understand but which was caused by the thought of impending nihility.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
Nor is there any one, I suppose, who has passed the meridian of life, who has not at some moments felt the nihility of all things.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Out of those eyes and that long, thin face stared death; not hot, sudden death, but nihility, cool, deliberate, that waited for one!
From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.
It was not, however, in order to arrive at that state of delicious, intellectual nihility, thai we had gone to mysterious Whitechapel.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 by Maupassant, Guy de
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