虚無きょむ (kyomu)

nihility; nothingness

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Meaning

虚無 (きょむ, kyomu) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “nihility; nothingness”.

Kanji in this word

Example sentences 12

かれ彼女かのじょわかれて つよ虚無きょむ かんかんじた

He felt a gnawing emptiness after he split up with her.

僕はその言葉は虚無的に思える。

Those words seem nihilistic.

私は恋人と別れ虚無感に襲われた。

I was overcome by a void after breaking up with my lover.

江戸時代に虚無僧によって全国に広まった。

It was spread throughout the nation by komuso (begging Zen priests of the Fukeshu sect) during the Edo period.