noun
nulliverse
Nulliverse (noun) means the universe seen as a place with no order or rules behind it.
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The universe seen as a place with no order or rules behind it.
"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."
— Vladimir Nabokov, Ada (1969)
"And Huw is abruptly ejected from whatever pocket nulliverse the Prophet’s fifth column have installed in the lobby of the virtual Tripoli Mariott, to a destination even more profoundly alienating than the cloud itself."
— Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow (2012)
"Now, why should an author not create a “nulliverse” to represent “oneirologically” the contents of his own mind?"
— John Updike, Books: Van Loves Ada, Ada Loves Van (1969)
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Etymology
Formed from null, a connecting -i-, and -verse; coined by William James.
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"nulliverse" (noun) means the universe seen as a place with no order or rules behind it.
