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Webster 1913 Edition


Nonentity

Non-en′ti-ty

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Nonentities
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1.
Nonexistence; the negation of being.
2.
A thing not existing.
South.

Definition 2024


nonentity

nonentity

English

Noun

nonentity (plural nonentities)

  1. 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?
  2. (uncountable): the state of not existing; nonexistence

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