nonexistence
NounSynonyms:
nonentity
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)
- the state of not existingSynonyms: nonentityType of nonbeingKinds nothingness, impossibility, unreality
Word of the day · Sep 29About this word
haphazardadjective
What does it mean? Question 1 of today’s quiz
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Non′ex·ist′ence noun
1. The state of not existing; absence of existence; the negation of being; — usually used with reference to existence in the real world, or logical possibility; as, the nonexistence of vaporware does not go unnoticed long. Andrew Baxter Syn. — nonentity{1}.
2. A thing that has no existence. Sir Thomas Browne
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC