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源自文藝復興拉丁語 nihilitas,源自拉丁語 nihil (没有东西)

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nihility (可數 不可數,複數 nihilities)

  1. 虚无空洞 (自17世纪)
    • 2000, Gregg Easterbrook, “Review: The Quest for Quarks”, 出自 The Wilson Quarterly, 第 24 卷, 第 1 期,第 110 頁:
      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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  2. (棄用可數)存在事物 (18-19世纪)
    • 1788, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana, 26 December:
      Della Crusca says all past Actions are Nihilities; & that the immediate Instant is the whole of human Existence—A bad Accᵗ of it surely!

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