nothingness

nothingness
n
1. nihility, nullity, nonexistence, Fr. nbant. existencelessness; nonreality, nonlife, unreality, unactuality; incorporeality, insubstantiality, nonsubsistence, inexistence; nonentity, inessentiality, nonbeing, immateriality, imponderability, impalpability, intangibility, imperceptibility; oblivion, void, blank, space, vacuum, empty space, outer space, infinity, emptiness; absence, nonpresence, nowhereness, nonoccupancy, vacancy.
2. unconsciousness, insensibility, insentience, senselessness, imperception, impercipience, obtuseness; numbness, unfeeling, narcosis, anesthesia, pins and needles; death, deadness, dullness; coma, catalepsy, catatony, sleep, lipothymy.
3. insignificance, triviality, frivolity, unimportance, valuelessness; worthlessness, emptiness, nugacity, point-lessness, superficiality; ineffectuality, uselessness, inconsequentiality; immateriality, inconsiderableness, inappreciableness, infinitesimalness; minuteness, smallness, meagerness, paltriness, diminutiveness, mi-crodimension.

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