Nothing is a term used to say that something is not physicly existant. Why is this definition more accurate? Because we can't just say its "no thing", otherwise it makes no sense that its a noun, since a noun is a person place or thing. Nothing is a thing - just not physical. As nothing is a logical idea, it is indeed a thing in a logical sense.
It is mightier than God, more evil than the Devil, dumber than George W. Bush, uglier than Paris Hilton, the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it for too long, you will die.
Large amounts of it are found in the heads of politicians and the purses of pupils, students, single mothers and pensioners.
Nothing was once questioned by a great mind. Is it the "prescense of abscence or the abscense of prescense"? Furthermore, what is the sound of one hand clapping? What is out there in the universe, at what makes up those vast spaces of abscense? (or prescense of abscense)
Nothing, put simply, is the deepest, shallowest, brightest, darkest, widest, thinnest, and incomprehensibly empty emptyness, so empty that it is only prevented from collapsing upon itself because there is no substance to collapsae in upon, or no substance to do the collapsing, or even any substance to think or daydream about collapsing upon abscense of prescense or prescense of abscense, which is still utterly and completely absent of form and shape and mass and prescense that is abscent from the existance of anything. In short, nothing is the total, absolute, final, and complete spot that is both positive and negative, young and old, and to sum it all up the opposite of everything in existance, for there is no existance in nothingness. It has even been thought that nothingness itself doesn't even exist, and that the existance of nothingness is so impossibly ludicrous and isnane that if anyone were to actually realize or see nothingness, the entirety of the expanse of the Everything would simply vaporize, leaving even more nothingness in its place.
Nothingness is nothing, to put it simply. (really, this time)
What my daughter tells me they learned at school today, and every other day for that matter. Usually followed by a shrug. Slang for "I can't be botheredremembering or telling you".
Father: So darling, what did you learn at school today?