nihility

[ nahy-hil-i-tee, nee- ]

noun

1. nothingness; nonexistence.

Example Sentences

But influences take a back seat here to the slow, deliberate act of painting, and the paradox of creation in nihility.

From New York Times

The writers whom it ridicules, have sunk into nihility.

From Project Gutenberg

Out of those eyes and that long, thin face stared death; not hot, sudden death, but nihility, cool, deliberate, that waited for one!

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

We treat it as a positive nihility, "a barrier from which all our batted balls of being rebound."

From Project Gutenberg