Nihility vs Annihilate - What's the difference?
nihility | annihilate |
Nothingness, nullity.*Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
* 2000 , Gregg Easterbrook, "Review: The Quest for Quarks," The Wilson Quarterly , vol. 24, no. 1, p. 110:
To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
(label) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation.
(archaic) To treat as worthless, to vilify.
*, II.17:
As a noun nihility
is nothingness, nullity*oxford english dictionary , 2nd ed, 1989.As a verb annihilate is
to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.nihility
English
Noun
(-)- 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 .
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annihilate
English
Verb
(annihilat)- An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.
- of all the opinions which Antiquity hath had of men in gross, those which I most willingly embrace, and whereon I take most hold, are such as most vilifie, condemne, and annihilate us.