nihility means the state or fact of being nothing; nothingness, nullity; nonexistence. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
NIHILITY — [Noun] The state or fact of being nothing; absolute nothingness or nonexistence. From Medieval Latin nihilitas, from Latin nihil ("nothing"). Unlike "void," which implies a vast, empty space awaiting occupation, or "nullity," which denotes a specific legal or social insignificance, nihility is the stark, metaphysical condition of pure non-being. It is the perfect silence after the last note has utterly decayed, the shape left by a dissolved sugar cube in a cup of tea, and the conceptual vacuum before the Big Bang—the profound and unthinkable sum of the cosmos when all accounts are cleared, the quiet ground zero from which all being is a temporary and startling deviation.
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- The state or fact of being nothing; nothingness, nullity; nonexistence.“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.”
- A nonexistent thing; nothing.“Della Crusca says all past Actions are Nihilities; & that the immediate Instant is the whole of human Existence—A bad Accᵗ of it surely!”