nothingness

as in death
the state of being dead the inevitable nothingness that awaits all of us

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Recent Examples of nothingness Empty space threatens to overwhelm her lattice of pinpricks and sparkles; her granular timbres often seem on the verge of dissolving into nothingness. Pitchfork, 5 Dec. 2024 At this point, resisting the urge to rotate, the superfluid suddenly spawns a single quantum vortex — a whorl of atoms surrounding a column of nothingness that extends to the bottom of the bucket. Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024 The star stays visible for around a week, before fading back into nothingness for the best part of the next century. Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024 WandaVision’s Elizabeth Olsen recently opened up about her own frustrations performing inside the physical nothingness required to bring Marvel’s big-budget projects together in postproduction. Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 26 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for nothingness 
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Noun
  • Rendered with all of the rich detail and disarming atmospherics that have characterized his work to date, Nosferatu is Eggers at the height of his powers: an astonishing, meticulously crafted, and oddly touching parable about desire, disease, and death.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The family of late British singer Danielle Moore, the vocalist for dance band Crazy P, has released a statement revealing her cause of death.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The brigade retreated, leaving behind its frozen dead.
    David Axe, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Tarrant County made changes to treat the unclaimed dead with dignity Hundreds of unclaimed bodies flowed to the University of North Texas from Tarrant and Dallas counties, which saw the arrangement as a cost savings.
    Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Sleep duration and risk of mortality from chronic kidney disease among Japanese adults.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Later on, Jackie, Phaedra, and Heavenly address the critical issue of Black maternal mortality in a moving speech.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 13 Jan. 2025

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“Nothingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nothingness. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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