nihility

English

Etymology

From Latin nihil (“nothing”) + -ity.

Noun

nihility (uncountable)

1. Nothingness, nullity.^[1]
   • 2000, Gregg Easterbrook, "Review: The Quest for Quarks," The Wilson Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 1, p. 110:

     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.

References

1. ^ *Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.