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annihilation
English
Etymology
From Middle French annihilation, from Latin ad (“to”) + nihil (“nothing”).Morphologically annihilate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??na?.??le?.??n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
- Hyphenation: an?ni?hi?la?tion
Noun
annihilation (countable and uncountable, plural annihilations)
- The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence
- The act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it
- The state of being annihilated.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:
- If you ask how religion thus falls on the thorns and faces death, and in the very act annuls annihilation, I cannot explain the matter, for it is religion's secret, and to understand it you must yourself have been a religious man of the extremer type.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:
- (physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.
Synonyms
- (act of reducing to nothing): extinction, eradication
- (state of being annihilated): extinction
Antonyms
- (act of reducing to nothing): creation, generation
- (state of being annihilated): generation
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- annihilation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- annihilation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- annihilation at OneLook Dictionary Search
French
Etymology
annihiler +? -ation
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ni.i.la.sj??/
Noun
annihilation f (plural annihilations)
- annihilation
References
- “annihilation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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extirpation
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
extirpation (countable and uncountable, plural extirpations)
- The act of extirpating or uprooting.
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.
- it aims at the correction of our manners, and extirpation of our vices
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.
Translations
French
Noun
extirpation f (plural extirpations)
- extirpation
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