Nothingness (Noun)
Meaning 1
Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz".
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
The state of nonexistence.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- The philosopher's concept of nothingness referred to the absence of matter, energy, and space in the universe.
- Before the Big Bang, there was only nothingness, a complete void of existence.
- The thought of nothingness was a terrifying prospect for the artist, who struggled to come to terms with her own mortality.
- In the darkness of the abandoned room, the only thing that existed was the overwhelming sense of nothingness.
- The physicist's theory of the origins of the universe proposed that everything arose from a state of quantum nothingness.