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nulliverse

noun

Etymology

From null + -i- + -verse, coined by William James.

  1. derived from nūllus
  2. borrowed from nul
  3. formed as nulliverse — “null + -i- + -verse”

Definitions

  1. The world, regarded as having no rationality or rules.

    • If the world cannot be rational in my sense, in the sense of unconditional surrender, I refuse to grant that it is rational at all. It is pure incoherence, a chaos, a nulliverse, to whose haphazard sway I will not truckle.
    • You admit yourself that I am only a pale wild girl with gipsy hair in a deathless ballad, in a nulliverse, in Rattner's ‘menald world’ where the only principle is random variation.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nulliverse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA