Nihility vs Vacuum - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between nihility and vacuum

is that nihility is nothingness, nullity*oxford english dictionary , 2nd ed, 1989 while vacuum is (rare|chiefly|netherlands).

nihility

English

Noun

(-)

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:

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 .

References

vacuum

English

Alternative forms

* (rare)

Noun

(wikipedia vacuum) (en-noun)

A region of space that contains no matter.

A vacuum cleaner.

The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, such as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.

a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch

Usage notes

* In the sense of "a region of space that contains no matter", the plural of vacuum' is either '''vacua''' or '''vacuums'''. In the sense of a "vacuum cleaner" ' vacuums is the only plural. * The Latin in vacuo'' is sometimes used instead of ''in a vacuum (in free space).

Synonyms

* (vacuum cleaner) hoover (British )

Antonyms

* (region of space that contains no matter) plenum

Derived terms

* power vacuum * vacuum brake * vacuum cleaner * vacuum pan * vacuum valve

Verb

(en verb)

To clean (something) with a vacuum cleaner.

To use a vacuum cleaner.

Synonyms

* (transitive sense) to hoover (British) * (intransitive sense) to do the hoovering, to hoover (British)