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Webster 1913 Edition
Nonentity
Non-en′ti-ty
,Noun.
pl.
Nonentities
. 1.
Nonexistence; the negation of being.
2.
A thing not existing.
South.
Definition 2024
nonentity
nonentity
English
Noun
nonentity (plural nonentities)
- an unimportant or insignificant person
- 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise, ISBN 9780002213165:
- 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.
- 2000, J.K. Rowling, quoting Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, ISBN 9780439139595, page 203:
- Imagine them not even getting his name right, Weasley. It's almost as though he's a complete nonentity, isn't it?
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- (uncountable): the state of not existing; nonexistence
Related terms
- nobody (noun)
Translations
an unimportant or insignificant person
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nonexistence — see nonexistence
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:nonentity