noun
( -es )
1. : the quality or state of being nothing: as
a. : absence of being : nonexistence
the smoke … was snatched and scattered into nothingness — Gordon Webber
b. : utter insignificance, worthlessness, or futility
would be intimidated into meek nothingness — Sinclair Lewis
c. : death
human reason cannot conceive of nothingness , yet men fear it — Time
cannot believe in nothingness being the destined end of all — T.B.Cabell
d. : the state or quality of utter indistinguishableness : total absence of determination or particularity
2. : something that is utterly insignificant or valueless
3. : emptiness , void
beyond the window was only a gray nothingness — Hugh MacLennan
ran behind a great green wall into nothingness — Ira Wolfert
4. : the conceptualization or reification of the affective content in an emotional experience (as of anxiety) that is negatively colored
nothingness is … a distinctive metaphysical entity — J.A.Franquiz
also : meaninglessness
the utter nothingness of not being — Jean Wahl