"nothingness" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-nothingness.wav Forms: nothingnesses [plural]
Etymology: From nothing + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|nothing|ness}} nothing + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} nothingness (usually uncountable, plural nothingnesses)
  1. The state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing): небитие (nebitie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), no-res [masculine] (Catalan), olemattomuus (Finnish), néant [masculine] (French), Nichtvorhandensein [neuter] (German), Nichts [neuter] (German), nem létezés (Hungarian), nulla [masculine] (Italian), неби́тие (nebítie) [neuter] (Macedonian), ingenting (Norwegian), intet [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), nicość [feminine] (Polish), vacuidade [feminine] (Portuguese), тлен (tlen) [masculine, poetic] (Russian), hiçlik (Turkish)
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  2. A void; an emptiness. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (void; emptiness): нищожност (ništožnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), tyhjyys (Finnish), vide [masculine] (French), Nichts [neuter] (German), Leere [feminine] (German), semmi (Hungarian), űr (Hungarian), üresség (Hungarian), пра́знина (práznina) [feminine] (Macedonian), пра́зност (práznost) [feminine] (Macedonian), vazio [masculine] (Portuguese), boşluk (Turkish)
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  3. The quality of inconsequentiality; the lack of significance. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance): нищожество (ništožestvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), merkityksettömyys (Finnish), mitättömyys (Finnish), Bedeutungslosigkeit [feminine] (German), semmiség (Hungarian), jelentéktelenség (Hungarian), lényegtelenség (Hungarian), feleslegesség (Hungarian), ништо́жество (ništóžestvo) [neuter] (Macedonian), ни́штожност (níštožnost) [feminine] (Macedonian), безна́чајност (beznáčajnost) [feminine] (Macedonian), anlamsızlık (Turkish), bilinçsizlik (Turkish), şuursuzluk (Turkish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: nihility [state] Related terms: do-nothingness, good-for-nothingness, know-nothingness

Inflected forms

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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
          "word": "merkityksettömyys"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 4 95",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
          "word": "mitättömyys"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 4 95",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Bedeutungslosigkeit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 4 95",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
          "word": "semmiség"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 4 95",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
          "word": "jelentéktelenség"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 4 95",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
          "word": "lényegtelenség"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 4 95",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
          "word": "feleslegesség"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 4 95",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "ništóžestvo",
          "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "ништо́жество"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 4 95",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "níštožnost",
          "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ни́штожност"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 4 95",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "beznáčajnost",
          "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "безна́чајност"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 4 95",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
          "word": "anlamsızlık"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 4 95",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
          "word": "bilinçsizlik"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 4 95",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
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      "word": "existence"
    }
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    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Requests for review of Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations"
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      "tags": [
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "do-nothingness"
    },
    {
      "word": "good-for-nothingness"
    },
    {
      "word": "know-nothingness"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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          "ref": "1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 3, lines 1–5:",
          "text": "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness; but still will keep / A bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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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        }
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        "The state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing."
      ],
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        [
          "nonexistence",
          "nonexistence"
        ],
        [
          "nothing",
          "nothing"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A void; an emptiness."
      ],
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        [
          "void",
          "void"
        ],
        [
          "emptiness",
          "emptiness"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The quality of inconsequentiality; the lack of significance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "inconsequentiality",
          "inconsequentiality"
        ],
        [
          "significance",
          "significance"
        ]
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      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "of nonexistence"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "state"
      ],
      "word": "nihility"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nebitie",
      "sense": "state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "небитие"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "no-res"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing",
      "word": "olemattomuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "néant"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Nichtvorhandensein"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Nichts"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing",
      "word": "nem létezés"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nulla"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "nebítie",
      "sense": "state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "неби́тие"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing",
      "word": "ingenting"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "intet"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nicość"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vacuidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tlen",
      "sense": "state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "poetic"
      ],
      "word": "тлен"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing",
      "word": "hiçlik"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ništožnost",
      "sense": "void; emptiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "нищожност"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "void; emptiness",
      "word": "tyhjyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "void; emptiness",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vide"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "void; emptiness",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Nichts"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "void; emptiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Leere"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "void; emptiness",
      "word": "semmi"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "void; emptiness",
      "word": "űr"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "void; emptiness",
      "word": "üresség"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "práznina",
      "sense": "void; emptiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пра́знина"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "práznost",
      "sense": "void; emptiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пра́зност"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "void; emptiness",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vazio"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "void; emptiness",
      "word": "boşluk"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ništožestvo",
      "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "нищожество"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
      "word": "merkityksettömyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
      "word": "mitättömyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Bedeutungslosigkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
      "word": "semmiség"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
      "word": "jelentéktelenség"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
      "word": "lényegtelenség"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
      "word": "feleslegesség"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ništóžestvo",
      "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ништо́жество"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "níštožnost",
      "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ни́штожност"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "beznáčajnost",
      "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "безна́чајност"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
      "word": "anlamsızlık"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
      "word": "bilinçsizlik"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance",
      "word": "şuursuzluk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nothingness"
}

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