Plural of nothing; things that do not exist or have no value; unimportant or insignificant matters.
Compound of Old English 'no' and 'thing.' Literally means no thing. The word has meant the absence of something since Anglo-Saxon times.
Philosophers have spent centuries trying to understand 'nothingness'—if nothing doesn't exist, how can we talk about it?—and medieval thinkers were genuinely confused about the concept, which is why zero took so long to become accepted in European mathematics.
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