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单词 nothingness
释义 noth·ing·ness
noun
(-es)
1. : the quality or state of being nothing: as
 a. : absence of being : nonexistence
  < the smoke … was snatched and scattered into nothingness — Gordon Webber >
 b. : utter insignificance, worthlessness, or futility
  < would be intimidated into meek nothingness — Sinclair Lewis >
 c. : death
  < human reason cannot conceive of nothingness, yet men fear it — Time >
  < cannot believe in nothingness being the destined end of all — T.B.Cabell >
 d. : the state or quality of utter indistinguishableness : total absence of determination or particularity
2. : something that is utterly insignificant or valueless
3. : emptiness, void
 < beyond the window was only a gray nothingness — Hugh MacLennan >
 < ran behind a great green wall into nothingness — Ira Wolfert >
4. : the conceptualization or reification of the affective content in an emotional experience (as of anxiety) that is negatively colored
 < nothingness is … a distinctive metaphysical entity — J.A.Franquiz >
also : meaninglessness
 < the utter nothingness of not being — Jean Wahl >
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