French-English translations for néant

emptiness
oblivion
us
In the face of this antithesis, I cannot help thinking of Byzantium, of the balsamic and self-satisfied utterances of the Byzantine administrators at a time when their world was sliding into oblivion. Ce décalage fait d'ailleurs penser immanquablement aux conversations anodines ou satisfaites de Byzance, des hiérarques de Byzance, tandis que leur monde glissait vers le néant. He regularly drank himself into oblivion.Only the oblivion of sleep can heal the greatest traumas.

nil
nothingnessHence the fear of nothingness, as the Louvain students made clear to you. D'où la peur du néant, et les étudiants de Louvain vous l'ont dit.
void
us
null and voidNobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; its high time we had another go.He voided the check and returned it