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verb 
  1. To encase in a shell of non-being
  2. The action of consciousness, which is the origin of negation in facticity.
Etymology: This word was created by w:Jean-Paul Sartre in the original French as néantir. This was translated to English as by w:Hazel E. Barnes in the 1984 version of Being and Nothingness, but was first used in English by w:Helmut Kuhn in his Encounter with Nothingness.


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