nihility

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There are many things on the Earth, which would be nihility to the inhabitants of Venus—many things visible and tangible in Venus, which we could not be brought to appreciate as existing at all.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Poe, Edgar Allan

But nihility is inconsistent with the existence of living, reasoning—I know not what to call them—uniting in themselves, in a state of commenced synthesis or imminent dissolution, all the antagonistic attributes of being.

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

We treat it as a positive nihility, "a barrier from which all our batted balls of being rebound."

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry

A man who once takes such a jump at nobility, Must not mince the matter, like folks of nihility, But clear thick and thin with true lordly agility.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

It was not, however, in order to arrive at that state of delicious, intellectual nihility, thai we had gone to mysterious Whitechapel.

From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 by Maupassant, Guy de