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nonexistence

noun

Etymology

From non- + existence.

  1. derived from *stísteh₂ti✻
  2. derived from existentia
  3. derived from existence
  4. inherited from existence
  5. prefixed as nonexistence — “non + existence”

Definitions

  1. The state of not existing.

    • The nonexistence of Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy came as something of a shock.
    • To hear Carlson foam, you’d think that each time a devious immigrant sneaks into the United States and reaches for a voter registration form, a White American in Peoria blinks into nonexistence.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nonexistence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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