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nonentity

noun

Etymology

From non- + entity.

  1. borrowed from entitās
  2. prefixed as nonentity — “non + entity”

Definitions

  1. An unimportant or insignificant person or thing.

    • The Queen Mother detests, but she dreads me—my uncle is indifferent, but finds me of use—our new Queen is already a nonentity—and Louis knows that my house is the most agreeable in Paris.
    • But I am not the penniless nonentity I was when we first met; I can offer an honorable if not a brilliant marriage; and at the very lowest I can provide my wife – my widow, my relict – with a decent competence, an assured future.

  2. The state of not existing

    The state of not existing; nonexistence.

    • New objects, new amusements, will occupy her mind; and unhappiness, equally unsuspected and unspoken, will die of its own nonentity.

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Derived

nonentitive, nonentitize, nonentityism

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA