Nothingness
['nʌθɪŋnɪs] or ['nʌθɪŋnəs]
Definition
(n.) Nihility; nonexistence.
(n.) The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
Inputed by Bruno
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Nihility, nihilism, non-existence, nonentity.
Typist: Susan
Examples
- Another night was coming on, for another night he was to be suspended in chain of physical life, over the bottomless pit of nothingness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They had wanted their own show, and they would not admit her, they turned all she was into nothingness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The insipidity, and yet the noise--the nothingness, and yet the self-importance of all those people! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- He cast over in his mind, what it would be possible to do, to save himself from this misery of nothingness, relieve the stress of this hollowness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The rest was all nothingness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I was a poor, uneducated, unbefriended, mountain girl, raised from nothingness by him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- After dinner, faced with the ultimate experience of his own nothingness, he turned aside. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was a state of nothingness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They should not die--first I would be gathered to nothingness, ere infection should come anear these idols of my soul. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The two women were jeering at him, jeering him into nothingness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A sense of change, of individual nothingness, of perplexity and disappointment, over-powered Margaret. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Another piece of shut-in air; without weight or substance, only a sense of intolerable papery imprisonment in nothingness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- For the hour--and in the presence of one who was so thoroughly feeling the nothingness of earth--he was reasonable and self-controlled. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But then, to have no claim upon her, he must stand by himself, in sheer nothingness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The world reeled and passed into nothingness for Gudrun, she could not know any more. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typed by Jack