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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

彼かれは彼女かのじょと別わかれて強つよい虚無きょむ感かんを感かんじた

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.

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