nihility

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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)

When we reach the latter, we feel an almost irresistible inclination to class it with spirit, or with nihility.

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

Nor is there any one, I suppose, who has passed the meridian of life, who has not at some moments felt the nihility of all things.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

The writers whom it ridicules, have sunk into nihility.

From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous

I never can forget the blank nihility of all existence that dreadful moment when I stood fumbling for what was not.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various