Nihility vs Nothingism - What's the difference?
nihility | nothingism |
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:
As nouns the difference between nihility and nothingism
is that nihility is nothingness, nullity*oxford english dictionary , 2nd ed, 1989 while nothingism is nihility; nothingness.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 .
