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Meaning of nihility | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The state or fact of being nothing; nothingness, nullity; nonexistence.
    countable, uncountable
  2. A nonexistent thing; nothing.
    countable, obsolete

Examples

“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!”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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