Worst part is, we can never hear nothingness. Our own bodies creak and make noises. Even among deaf people, they subvocalize, even though they’ve never heard a sound with their ears.
Just how it is.
Nothingness? It’s a concept related to a black all the shades blacker than the blackest black we think we could ever imagine with a silence more silent than the most quiet we’ve never heard. In short, it’s a poetic word, although cognitively analogized to things we can comprehend, like blackness and silence.