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nothingness
[nuhth-ing-nis] 
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nothingness
[nuhth-ing-nis]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insignificance |
| Synonyms: | pettiness, smallness, unimportance, worthlessness |
| Antonyms: | eminence, importance, significance |
| Main Entry: | limbo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of uncertainty |
| Synonyms: | Siberia, demilitarized zone, left field, nothingness, nowhere, oblivion, out there |
| Antonyms: | certainty, certitude, sureness, surety |
| Main Entry: | negation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contradiction, denial |
| Synonyms: | antithesis, antonym, blank, cancellation, contrary, converse, counterpart, disavowal, disclaimer, forget it, gainsaying, inverse, negatory, neutralization, no, nonexistence, nothingness, nullification, nullity, opposite, opposition, proscription, refusal, rejection, renunciation, repudiation, reverse, vacuity, veto, void |
| Antonyms: | allowance, approval, permission |
| Main Entry: | nothing/nothingness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emptiness, nonexistence |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, aught, blank, cipher, extinction, fly speck, insignificancy, naught, nihility, nobody, nonbeing, nonentity, not anything, nought, nullity, obliteration, oblivion, shutout, trifle, void, wind*, zero*, zilch, zip |
| Antonyms: | capacity, fullness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vacuum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emptiness |
| Synonyms: | exhaustion, free space, gap, nothingness, rarefaction, space, vacuity, void |
| Antonyms: | fullness |
| Main Entry: | void |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emptiness, want |
| Synonyms: | blank, blankness, cavity, gap, hole, hollow, lack, nihility, nothingness, nullity, opening, space, vacuity, vacuum |
| Notes: | void means empty; devoid means empty, but empty only after something has been taken away |
| Antonyms: | fullness |
| Main Entry: | zilch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nothing |
| Synonyms: | blank, diddly-squat, goose egg, hill of beans, insignificancy, nada, naught, not anything, nothingness, nought, void, zero, zip, zippo |
| Main Entry: | insignificance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unimportance |
| Synonyms: | immateriality, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, indifference, meanness, molehill, negligibility, nothingness, paltriness, pettiness, smallness, trifling matter, triviality, worthlessness |
| Main Entry: | nothing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emptiness |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, aught, bagatelle, blank, cipher, crumb, diddly, duck egg, extinction, fly speck, goose egg, insignificancy, naught, nihility, nix, no thing, nobody, nonbeing, nonentity, nonexistence, not anything, nothingness, nought, nullity, obliteration, oblivion, scratch, shutout, trifle, void, wind, zero, zilch, zip, zippo, zot |
| Antonyms: | something |
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