ETYM Old Eng. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, as. nawiht, nauht, naht; ne not + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. Related to No, Whit, Aught, Not.
(Homonym: knot, not).
Complete failure.

The state of nonexistence; SYN. void, nullity.
Nonbeing. The concept is much used in existentialism, as in the title of Jean-Paul Sartre’s work L’Etre et le néant/Being and Nothingness 1943.
In logic, it is an error to assume that every subject of a grammatical sentence is the name of a thing. So when “nothingness” is used as the subject of a grammatical sentence, it must not be assumed that “nothingness” is itself a thing, or the name of anything.
Some philosophers think that the problem of why something, rather than nothing, exists is the deepest metaphysical conundrum, whereas others consider it irrelevant.
In Buddhism, nothingness is the essence of enlightenment. + prikaži više

ETYM Latin oblivio, akin to oblivisci to forget: cf. Old Fren. oblivion.
The state of being disregarded or forgotten; SYN. limbo.
Complete forgetfulness or forgottenness.