Substantives: un-, in-substantiality; nothingness, nihility.
Nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody; never, ne'er a one; no such thing, none in the world; nothing -whatever, - at all, - on earth; not a particle etc. (smallness) 32; all talk, - moonshine, - stuff and nonsense, matter of no import.
Thing of naught, man of straw, John Doe and Richard Roe; nominis umbra, nonentity, figurehead, lay figure; flash in the pan, vox et praeterea nihil.
Shadow; phantasm, phantom etc. (fallacy of vision) 443; dream etc. (imagination) 515; ignis fatuus etc. (luminary) 423; 'such stuff as dreams are made of'; air, thin air; bubble etc. 353; 'baseless fabric of a vision'; mockery.
Hollowness, blank; vacuity; void etc. (absence) 187.
Insanity, fool’s paradise, fatuity, stupidity, emptiness of mind.
Verbs: vanish, evaporate, fade, sink, fly – die, melt -away, dissolve, disappear etc. 449; become extinct, become invisible.
Adjectives: unsubstantial, fleeting, base-, ground-less, ungrounded; without –, having no– foundation.
Imaginary etc. (imaginary) 515; immaterial etc. 980; dreamy, shadowy; ethereal, airy, imponderable, tenuous, vague.
Vacant, vacuous, empty etc. 187; eviscerated; blank, hollow; nominal; null; inane.
Phrases: There’s nothing in it.
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