nihility

英語

詞源

源自文藝復興拉丁語 nihilitas，源自拉丁語 nihil (「沒有東西」)。

名詞

nihility (可數 和 不可數，複數 nihilities)

1. 無，虛無，空洞 （自17世紀）
   • 2000, Gregg Easterbrook, 「Review: The Quest for Quarks」, 出自 The Wilson Quarterly, 卷 24, 期 1，頁號 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.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

2. (棄用，可數) 不存在的事物 （18-19世紀）
   • 1788, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana, 26 December:

     Della Crusca says all past Actions are Nihilities; & that the immediate Instant is the whole of human Existence—A bad Accᵗ of it surely!

近義詞

• (沒有，無)： 參見Thesaurus:inexistence