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A thing amounting to nothing.

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Usage examples (29)
  • All the conflict of faith and doubt, the distress roused by the idea of nihility, the anger he had felt at the unjust sufferings of mankind, had been swept away by her...
  • Embrace the solace that accompanies the wave of dark nihility.
  • Here there was more for her than kyomu, that which Kyoki preached: nihility.
  • Stirring where neither time nor space existed, where endless nihility was all.
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