nothingless

nothingless

English

Etymology

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Adjective

nothingless (not comparable)

1. (chiefly obsolete) Being nothing; nonexistent.
   • 1846, The Phrenological Journal and Magazine of Moral Science (page 258)

     The more you reflect upon the simplicity of truth, the closer will you find science connected with it; separate them, and science is a nothingless void.

   • 1882, Thomas Bendyshe, The Last Christian (page 42)

     You must believe that with one single breath / There is a Power that can do to death, / Aye! not to death, but absolute nothingness, / The forces of the immeasurable abyss, / And light, and heat, and motion make succumb / To nothing, in a nothingless vacuum; […]

   • 1999, James H. Austin, Zen and the Brain (page 572)

     It was also a nothingless abyss about which nothing could ever be known.