ETYM Latin inanitas, from inanis empty: cf. French inanité. Related to Inane.
Total lack of meaning or ideas; SYN. senselessness, mindlessness, vacuity, pointlessness.

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 Late Lat. nullitias, from Latin nullus none: cf. French nullité. Related to Null.
1. The quality or state of being null; nothingness; lack of efficacy or force.
2. Nonexistence.
The state of being null or void.

An empty area or space; SYN. vacancy, emptiness.