nihility

The state or fact of being nothing; nothingness, nullity; nonexistence.

Noun

  1. The state or fact of being nothing; nothingness, nullity; nonexistence.
    • Paeans and even poems have been written to the esoteric nature of the smallest building blocks of matter: how they manifest as everywhere and nowhere, seem to have come out of emptiness, and at the ultimate level seem...
  2. A nonexistent thing; nothing.
    • Della Crusca says all past Actions are Nihilities; & that the immediate Instant is the whole of human Existence—A bad Accᵗ of it surely! - 1788 December 26, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:

Origin

From Renaissance Latin nihilitās, from Latin nihil (“nothing”).

Forms

nihilities