nothingness
noun
noth·ing·ness
ˈnə-thiŋ-nəs 
Examples of nothingness in a Sentence
He was staring into nothingness.
The sound faded into nothingness.
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Worse still, perhaps, at times general-purpose generative AI will produce a heaping of psychobabble, seemingly impressive sounding mental health advice that is nothing more than babbling psychological words of nothingness, see my analysis at the link here.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
The Padres’ winter of nonsense and nothingness is no more.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025
From there, the movie around her is soon reduced to a nothingness of its own making.
—Chase Hutchinson, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
Alexander Vilenkin, meanwhile, has suggested that the universe instead emerged spontaneously from a state of nothingness via a strange quantum mechanics phenomenon known as quantum tunneling.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
The Padres’ winter of nonsense and nothingness is no more.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025
From there, the movie around her is soon reduced to a nothingness of its own making.
—Chase Hutchinson, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
Alexander Vilenkin, meanwhile, has suggested that the universe instead emerged spontaneously from a state of nothingness via a strange quantum mechanics phenomenon known as quantum tunneling.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for nothingness
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“Nothingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nothingness. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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