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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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
My ophthalmologist had plunged me into a diagnostic void, into a world of clinical nothingness.
—Peter Ubel, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
From there, the movie around her is soon reduced to a nothingness of its own making.
—Chase Hutchinson, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 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 9 Mar. 2025.
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