nothingness

noth·ing·ness (-nis)

noun

the quality or condition of being nothing or not existing; nonexistence or extinction
lack of value, worth, meaning, etc.; uselessness, emptiness, insignificance, etc.
unconsciousness or death
anything that is nonexistent, worthless, insignificant, useless, etc.

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?

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