Nulliverse

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

Example

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"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."

Etymology

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

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