Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nothingness; nihility.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Nihility; nothingness.
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- noun
nihility ;nothingness
Etymologies
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Examples
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Know-nothingism is not dead in America, and now it has a megaphone and star power.
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My guess is, the only way to confront this incipient, embarrassing know-nothingism is to do exactly what Cole has done here ... and to make the name as familiar, and unthreatening, to Americans as Michael Jordan's is.
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The narrator contrasts this hypocrisy unfavorably with the anti-philosophy of the donkey who carries the baggage of the troupe: riénisme ( "nothingism"), as he calls it, which consists of rejecting all systems of thought while satisfying one's appetite. [
Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia Darnton, Robert 2008
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The problem with both the news story and the parental reaction is that they represent the equivalent of medical no-nothingism and an unwillingness to understand as well as a failure to comprehend the magnitude of what vaccines have prevented over the years.
The "Anti-Vaccine" Illusion « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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Republicans have a romance with knowing nothing as long as one seriously believes in their know-nothingism.
Think Progress » Sarah Palin calls global warming studies ‘snake oil science.’ 2010
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Republican "do nothingism" would have taken the economy down such a deep hole that it wouldhave very likely destroyed civilization.
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The problem with both the news story and the parental reaction is that they represent the equivalent of medical no-nothingism and an unwillingness to understand as well as a failure to comprehend the magnitude of what vaccines have prevented over the years.
October « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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This is the kind of know-nothingism that responsible conservatives -- or, for that matter, anyone who believes that the Internet should be a self-regulating forum in which bad ideas get weeded out -- should be denouncing.
Obama's terrorist lawyer wants illegals to control Arizona? 2010
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Personally, I get no pleasure in imagining future Americans cursing their ancestors, not just for their do-nothingism, but their actual resistance to doing anything.
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Personally, I get no pleasure in imagining future Americans cursing their ancestors, not just for their do-nothingism, but their actual resistance to doing anything.
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