nihility

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nihility

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From Renaissance Latin nihilitās, from Latin nihil (“nothing”).

noun nihilities

  1. countable, uncountable The state or fact of being nothing; nothingness, nullity; nonexistence. Paeans and even poems have been written to the esoteric nature of the smallest building blocks of matter: how they manifest as everywhere and nowhere, seem to have come out of emptiness, and at the ultimate level seem to be distilled from pure nihility.
  2. countable, obsolete A nonexistent thing; nothing. Della Crusca says all past Actions are Nihilities; & that the immediate Instant is the whole of human Existence—A bad Accᵗ of it surely!

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@misc{nihility_2026,
  title = {nihility},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nihility},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}