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vacuum
A region of space having extremely low gas pressure relative to surrounding pressure. The air pump of a vacuum cleaner, for example, drastically reduces the air pressure inside the device, creating a vacuum; the pressure difference causes air to rush into it, carrying dust and debris along with it.
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  1. A region of space having extremely low gas pressure relative to surrounding pressure. The air pump of a vacuum cleaner, for example, drastically reduces the air pressure inside the device, creating a vacuum; the pressure difference causes air to rush into it, carrying dust and debris along with it.
  2. An enclosed space, as that inside a vacuum tube, out of which most of the air or gas has been taken, as by pumping
  3. (Short for) vacuum cleaner
blank
A mark, usually a dash (—), indicating an omitted word, esp. an oath or curse
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  1. A mark, usually a dash (—), indicating an omitted word, esp. an oath or curse
  2. A manufactured article of a standard shape or form that is ready for final processing, as by stamping or cutting:
  3. A blank cartridge.
hollowness
The state or quality of being hollow
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  1. The state or quality of being hollow
pettiness
The quality of being petty.
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  1. The quality of being petty.
  2. A petty behaviour, attitude, etc.
unimportance
The property of lack of importance.
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  1. The property of lack of importance.
smallness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being small.
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  1. (Uncountable) The state or quality of being small.
  2. (Countable) The result or product of being small.
nihility
Nonexistence; nothingness.
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  1. Nonexistence; nothingness.
nonexistence
The condition of not existing.
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  1. The condition of not existing.
  2. Something that does not exist
nothing
Something that has no existence.
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  1. Something that has no existence.
  2. Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance.
  3. No thing; not anything:
barrenness
The property of being barren; the property of not supporting life.
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  1. The property of being barren; the property of not supporting life.
emptiness
The state or feeling of being empty
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  1. The state or feeling of being empty
vacancy
(Now Rare) The state of being free from work, activity, etc.; idleness
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  1. (Now Rare) The state of being free from work, activity, etc.; idleness
  2. An unoccupied position or office; unfilled post, situation, or job
  3. A vacant space; gap, blank, opening, etc.
vacuity
The quality or state of being empty; emptiness
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  1. The quality or state of being empty; emptiness
  2. Something, especially a remark, that is pointless or inane:
  3. An empty space; void or vacuum
vacuum
A region of space having extremely low gas pressure relative to surrounding pressure. The air pump of a vacuum cleaner, for example, drastically reduces the air pressure inside the device, creating a vacuum; the pressure difference causes air to rush into it, carrying dust and debris along with it.
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  1. A region of space having extremely low gas pressure relative to surrounding pressure. The air pump of a vacuum cleaner, for example, drastically reduces the air pressure inside the device, creating a vacuum; the pressure difference causes air to rush into it, carrying dust and debris along with it.
  2. An enclosed space, as that inside a vacuum tube, out of which most of the air or gas has been taken, as by pumping
  3. (Short for) vacuum cleaner
void
A break or open space, as in a surface; gap
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  1. A break or open space, as in a surface; gap
  2. Total emptiness; an empty space or vacuum
  3. A vacuum.
Find another word for nothingness. In this page you can discover 21 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for nothingness, like: vacuum, blank, hollowness, pettiness, unimportance, smallness, emptiness, nothing, oblivion, insignificance and nihility.

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  • 5, 6), show that, in defending these propositions, Gorgias availed himself of the arguments which Zeno had used to discredit the popular belief in the existence of the Many; in other words, that Gorgias turned the destructive logic of Zeno against the constructive ontology of Parmenides, thereby not only reducing Eleaticism to nothingness, but also, until such time as a better logic than that of Zeno should be provided, precluding all philosophical inquiry whatsoever.

  • And it occurs to no one that to admit a greatness not commensurable with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable meanness.

  • This choice of final nothingness differs from that of Schopenhauer in being collective and not individual.

  • But the sensuous and phenomenal, as such, so far as they seem to imply independence of God, are mere privation and nothingness; things exist only through the presence of God in them, and the goal of creation, like its outset, is the repose of the Godhead.

  • But with the Indians this speculation leads to the complete abolition of all barriers between God and man, to a mystic pantheism, and to absorption in the universal Ego, in contrast with which the world becomes an unsubstantial phantasm and sinks into nothingness.

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