nothingness
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Synonyms & Antonyms for nothingness
Synonyms
dead, deadness, death, grave, lifelessness, sleep
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Rather than demonstrating Beethoven’s extraordinary capacity to manufacture joy out of nothingness in the Ninth, for instance, Petrenko was more like the great Sufi singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan . — Los Angeles Times, "Review: A shy Siberian conductor in Berlin may be just what the music world needs," 28 Aug. 2019 Henry George says, Compared with the solar system our earth is but an indistinguishable speck; and the solar system itself shrivels into nothingness when gauged with the star depths. — Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, "Is Poverty Necessary?," 10 June 2019 After around 20 minutes, the piece fades into meaningful timeless nothingness. — Los Angeles Times, "Commentary: La Jolla’s SummerFest has a new artistic director to go with its new concert hall," 5 Aug. 2019 Frequently bewailing the know-nothingness of the age, Davenport grouses that real scholarship has disappeared because of the vogue for critical approaches and appreciations. — Michael Dirda, National Review, "The Exhilarating Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner," 25 July 2019 There has never been a boyfriend who’s more of a wet lump of nothingness than Christian. — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, "Midsommar’s twisted ending, explained," 3 July 2019 Can the series' iconic brand of nothingness work in a landscape of Kardashian cheating scandals? — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, "The Hills: New Beginnings Is Truly About Nothing—And I’m Obsessed," 26 June 2019 Rick Owens asked the Instagram drag star Salvia to consult on an alien makeup look complete with black contact lenses that turned models’ eyes into infinity pools of inky nothingness. — Steff Yotka, Vogue, "The Fall Runways Are Full of Bewitching Clothes, So Let’s Explore Fashion’s Obsession With Horror," 27 Mar. 2019 Just a vast perfect nothingness known as the event horizon. — Steff Yotka, Vogue, "Just Wait Until Fashion Designers Get Their Hands on This Black Hole Picture," 10 Apr. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'nothingness.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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