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NOTHINGNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
Example:
don't give me any of that jazz
Synonyms:
idle words; jazz; malarkey; malarky; nothingness; wind
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("nothingness" is a kind of...):
talk; talking (an exchange of ideas via conversation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of nonexistence
Synonyms:
nihility; nothingness; nullity; void
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("nothingness" is a kind of...):
nonentity; nonexistence (the state of not existing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nothingness"):
thin air (nowhere to be found in a giant void)
