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countable and uncountable, plural nihilities
The state or fact of being nothing; nothingness, nullity; nonexistence. quotations 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.
2000, Gregg Easterbrook, “Review: The Quest for Quarks”, in The Wilson Quarterly, volume 24, number 1, page 110
(obsolete, countable) A nonexistent thing; nothing. quotations
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