nihility
Americannoun
noun
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I never can forget the blank nihility of all existence that dreadful moment when I stood fumbling for what was not.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various
The writers whom it ridicules, have sunk into nihility.
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous
A man who once takes such a jump at nobility, Must not mince the matter, like folks of nihility, But clear thick and thin with true lordly agility.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael
—I replied with my usual forbearance.—Certainly, to give up the algebraic symbol, because A or B is often a cover for ideal nihility, would be unwise.
From Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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
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