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 Mike himself has been hollowed out into nothingness, his character chipped away into a hollow avatar for a sensitive, caring man dedicated to providing women pleasure. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025 Events that used to lead to days or weeks of heated discourse now fade into nothingness almost instantaneously; nothing matters enough to break the internet anymore. Meaghan Garvey, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2025 Plan It: Massacre Rim Dark Sky Sanctuary Out There in Nevada So many people think that Nevada is just the Strip and then a vast expanse of nothingness. Graham Averill, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025 Her sentences, always at the shore of some great nothingness, have the intricacies and echoes of a conch shell. Audrey Wollen, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nothingness
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Noun
  • Police say that early in the morning of Nov. 13, 2022, the four college students were stabbed to death at an off-campus house on King Road in Moscow, Idaho, where three of them lived.
    Jorge L. Ortiz, USA Today, 17 May 2025
  • Their widowed neighbour, Daming, grieves over the death of the last of his three sons, while his mother devises a secret plan for another grandson.
    Sara Merican, Deadline, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • As Joel talks to Ellie, a different solemn moment unfolds in Salt Lake City, where the young survivors of Joel’s Firefly massacre bury their dead and try to figure out what happened.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2025
  • However, because the Romans cremated their dead for many years, archaeologists have not found many gladiator bodies.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Early improvement in life expectancy came from reducing childhood mortality.
    Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • Yet a shattering tragedy at around the film’s mid-point upsets that trajectory entirely, as their convoy of cars become stationary, and confrontations with mortality must be sought.
    David Katz, IndieWire, 16 May 2025

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“Nothingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nothingness. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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