The state of nonexistence.
synonyms: nothingness, nullity, void.
Roget 2:
inexistence†;
nonexistence,
nonsubsistence;
nonentity,
nil;
negativeness
etc.
adj.;
nullity;
nihility†,
nihilism;
tabula rasa [Lat.],
blank;
abeyance;
absence
etc.
187;
no such thing
etc.
4;
nonbeing,
nothingness,
oblivion.
annihilation;
extinction
etc.
(destruction)
162;
extinguishment,
extirpation,
Nirvana,
obliteration.
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Roget 4:
unsubstantiality†,
insubstantiality;
nothingness,
nihility†;
no degree,
no part,
no quantity,
no thing.
nothing,
naught,
nil,
nullity,
zero,
cipher,
no one,
nobody;
never a one,
ne'er a one [Contr.];
no such thing,
none in the world;
nothing whatever,
nothing at all,
nothing on earth;
not a particle
etc.
(smallness)
32;
all talk,
moonshine,
stuff and nonsense;
matter of no importance,
matter of no consequence.
thing of naught,
man of straw,
John Doe and Richard Roe,
faggot voter;
nominis umbra [Lat.],
nonentity;
flash in the pan,
vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.].
shadow;
phantom
etc.
(fallacy of vision)
443;
dream
etc.
(imagination)
515;
ignis fatuus [Lat.]
etc.
(luminary)
423;
such stuff as dreams are made of"
[Tempest];
air,
thin air,
vapor;
bubble
etc.
353;
baseless fabric of a vision"
[Tempest];
mockery.
hollowness,
blank;
void
etc.
(absence)
187.
inanity,
fool's paradise.
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Polish: nicestwo, nicość