ABSP: Words - Nothingness

Culture > Linguistics > Nothingness

Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.

nada	(Spanish) nothing.
naething	(Scots) nothing.
naught	nothing.
nihil	(Lat.) nothing.
nihility	nothingness; a mere nothing.
nil	nothing.
nish	(Coll.) nothing.
nobbut	(Dial.) only, except; nothing but.
nothing	the absence of all quantity or magnitude.
nothingism	nihility; nothingness.
nothingness	nonexistence.
nought	nothing.
nowt	(Dial.) nothing.
nuffin	(Sl.) nothing.
nullity	the state of being null or void.
nuthin	(Coll.) nothing.
ought	nothing; (verb) to owe.
squadoosh	(US slang) nothing.
zilch	nothing.
zipola	nothing.
zippo	(US sl.) nothing, zero.

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