nothingness

as in death
the state of being dead the inevitable nothingness that awaits all of us

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Recent Examples of nothingness The point is to bring production back to California before the entertainment industry shrinks into nothingness. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 9 May 2025 Picture those Void rooms: this very kind of hellish place where all angles are skewed and the different gravity rooms are glued to each other in the middle of black nothingness. Chris Lee, Vulture, 6 May 2025 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. 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 See All Example Sentences for nothingness
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Noun
  • After mourners left thousands of tributes to the late heavy metal legend on Black Sabbath Bridge in Ozzy’s native Birmingham, England following his death from a heart attack on July 22 at age 76, those flowers and keepsakes have been preserved and cataloged for posterity.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Her husband, Patrick, 46, was stabbed to death in their Over-the-Rhine home during a June burglary.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 7 Aug. 2025
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  • Corrections officers found the 37-year-old dead from an apparent suicide in his cell Saturday, days before the hearing, where prosecutors were expected to outline the case against him.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2025
  • His official return to the living dead came a few years later, though, resulting in one of the greatest horror movies of all time.
    James Grebey, Time, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Amid all the looming consciousness that our time on earth is precious, there are also specials unerringly devoted to utter stupidity, and even the comedians fixated on mortality are delivering life-affirming material, too.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Research shows a direct correlation between rising temperatures and mortality.
    Jyoti Thakur, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2025

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“Nothingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nothingness. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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