nihil

The Latin word nihil means "nothing at all;" absence as opposed to a presence, emptiness instead of abundance, a lack of substance rather than something substantial.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com D.H.L. Michael Meade 2011

KIMBALL: It comes from the Latin term nihil, meaning nothing.

Tenured Radicals 1990

Third, and chief reason, that try how you might, you could scarcely help supposing, on looking at his face, that your eyes were not far from a well-finished mind, instead of the well-finished skin et praeterea nihil, which is by rights the Mark of the Row.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

Third, and chief reason, that try how you might, you could scarcely help supposing, on looking at his face, that your eyes were not far from a well-finished mind, instead of the well-finished skin et praeterea nihil, which is by rights the Mark of the Row.

A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884

The term is from the Latin nihil, meaning “nothing.

nihilism 2002

It is your special responsibility, dear monks, to be living examples of this interior and profound relationship with him, implementing without compromise the program that your founder summarized in the "nihil amori Christi praeponere" [put nothing before the love of Christ.] (Rule 4.21).

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De mortuis nihil nisi bonum, as they say, but a few who worked with him have spoken of his less-than-saintly actions.

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Be careful with the elephant's toothpaste - it looks harmless, but it's actually thousands of degrees hot. nihil

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

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I hope we come to terms with reality, cherish the physical world and see the inherent beauty of the universe with wonderment and joy not in awe and fear. ex nihilo nihil fit.

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