NOTHINGNESS Synonyms

• the state of nonexistence

• an empty area or space

• lacking any legal or binding force

• containing nothing

• declare invalid

• clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something

• take away the legal force of or render ineffective

• excrete or discharge from the body

• the state of being absent

• failure to be present

• the time interval during which something or somebody is away

• the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy

• the state of being blank; void; emptiness

• the state of containing nothing

• having an empty stomach

• an empty area or space

• the quality of being valueless or futile

• no longer active; extinguished

• no longer in existence

• the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation

• complete annihilation

• a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus

• the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning

• the state of not existing

• the state of being disregarded or forgotten

• total forgetfulness

• the absence of matter

• an empty area or space

• a region that is devoid of matter

• an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction

• clean with a vacuum cleaner

• the state of nonexistence

• empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

• a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles

• a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands

• play something in the style of jazz

• have sexual intercourse with

• empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

• empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

• the act of winding or twisting

• air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure

• a tendency or force that influences events

• breath

• empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

• an indication of potential opportunity

• a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath

• a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus

• to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course

• catch the scent of; get wind of

• extend in curves and turns

• arrange or coil around

• coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem

• form into a wreath

• raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help

• empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk