annihilation

Meaning

Noun

• The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence
• The act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it
• The state of being annihilated.
• The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.

Related

Similar words

• extinction, eradication
• extinction

Opposite words

• creation, generation
• generation

Origin

• From Middle French annihilation, from Latin ad + nihil.
• Morphologically annihilate + -ion