Preposition: of

• death: The unfortunates should have been respected, even in the coldness and nothingness of death.

• reading: I want to argue that it is precisely this seeming nothingness of reading that should concern us today.

• scorn: We shall not vanish into the nothingness of scorn and noise.

Converse of object

• experience: It became easier and easier to be still, experiencing the lovely, inner nothingness of peace.

• imagine: I assume that I'm not the only one, so why do we find it so hard to imagine true nothingness?

• represent: The sheer scale makes the contemplation of this painting almost impossible: a vast canvas representing an absolute nothingness.

Adjective modifier

• absolute: Is this God, is this absolute nothingness, is this death?

• own: It is the attribute of the humble, those who have realized their own nothingness, those who have failed in love.

• eternal: Different attitudes to what happened after death, including systems of eternal reward and punishment; belief in eternal nothingness; and ghosts.

• black: In a black nothingness, not in my body.

• seeming: I want to argue that it is precisely this seeming nothingness of reading that should concern us today.

• vast: There are a few isolated pockets of enlightened officers and members but they can hardly be recognized amidst the vast nothingness which prevails.

Preposition: in

• front: He froze on the spot and fixed his gaze on the nothingness in front of him.

• order: Why did God choose this moment of nothingness rather than that moment of nothingness in order to create the universe?