nothingness
English
Noun
nothingness (usually uncountable, plural nothingnesses)
- State of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing.
- 2014 April 12, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler's philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R11:
- In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg and in his inaugural lecture made a pronouncement that earned him a reputation as an archetypal metaphysician with his claim that our awareness of people as a whole depends on our experience of dread in the face of nothingness.
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- Void; emptiness.
- Quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance.
Synonyms
- (state of nonexistence): nihility; See also Thesaurus:inexistence
Antonyms
- (state of nonexistence): existence; See also Thesaurus:existence
Translations
state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing
void; emptiness
quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance
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