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Meanings of nothing (nothings) in English

Portuguese
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Catalan
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Spanish
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A quantity of no importance.

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Russian
небытие
Portuguese
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Spanish
nada
Catalan
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Concept denoting the absence of anything (at all) and associated with "nothingness"

Related terms
небытие

Nonentity.

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Examples for "nonentity"
Examples for "nonentity"
1
He perceived that the Judge was no nonentity in this new party.
The Crisis — Volume 04
2
As a vote, Hartman is a valuable machine asset; otherwise a nonentity.
Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909
3
Pure feeling rejoices in a logical nonentity very deceptive to dialectical minds.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress
4
An undefecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
Scenes of Clerical Life
5
The best man in the State with a little beggarly thieving nonentity?
The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories
Usage of nothings in English
1
The social aspirant should cultivate the art of saying polite nothings acceptably.
Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
2
I like the way you treat your nothings better than our way.
Swastika Night
3
He's probably in his room with it right now, whispering sweet nothings.
The Pilo Family Circus
4
We seem to be doing feeble next-to-nothings in the endowment of research.
An Englishman Looks at the World / Being a Series of Unrestraine...
5
An hour of nothings set the carnal machinery of the day agoing.
The Brick Moon, and Other Stories
6
From morning till night she lived in a flutter of delicious nothings.
Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I
7
He uttered inconceivable nothings, and she replied to him in incomprehensible somethings.
Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
8
That is, when Captain Percival did not talk; for he talked nothings.
Daisy
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They'd gone from nothings to somethings, all because she was Alison DiLaurentis.
Ali’s Pretty Little Lies
10
But, without further preface, I will begin with one of the nothings.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
11
She was called stupid and dull, clumsy and awkward for mere nothings.
Pierrette
12
Great things hang upon these nothings, so they should not be neglected.
Tales and Novels — Volume 08
13
They modified the dose and Phearson sat as I drooled nonsensical nothings.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
14
Was he contending about airy nothings without local habitation or a name?
Our Unitarian Gospel
15
How is this sensitiveness stupidly spent on nothings to be accounted for?
The Vicar of Tours
16
Sometimes the nothings bit and fought, screamed and spewed poison or fire.
Rogues
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United States of America
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