Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nihility

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ni-hili-ty
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A nonexistent thing; nothing.

Countable; Obsolete

Example Sentences

"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 to be distilled from pure nihility."
"Della Crusca says all past Actions are Nihilities; & that the immediate Instant is the whole of human Existence—A bad Accᵗ of it surely!"

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: nihilitās, nihil

Usage

Inflected Forms

nihilities (plural)

Synonyms

nothingness void nullity

Questions

What does nihility mean?: The state or fact of being nothing; nothingness, nullity; nonexistence.
Where does nihility come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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