Nothing | No Thing

Nothing: no thing; the absence of something-- Is it possible for no thing to exist, or perhaps to perform no thing at all? There is an inability to perform absolutely nothing because nothing in itself is highly impossible. Even still, if one regards nothing as the state of not being able perform any action of function it is still something; and so, the absence of something still results in something and this something is nothing. Therefore, is nothing [no thing] but an illusion also?