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/nɑnˈɛntəti/ Listen

noun

Nonentity n. (pl. nonentities)

Nonexistence; the negation of being.

A thing not existing.

A person or thing of little or no account; an unimportant person; usually used as a disparaging term. (Colloq.)

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Etymology of 'Nonentity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Nonentity" Quotes from Famous Books

... Progress of Science sufficiently show that the study of geometry was almost a nonentity in England previously to the commencement of the eighteenth century. Before this period Dr. Dee, the celebrated author of the preliminary discourse to Billingsley's Euclid, had indeed resided at Manchester (1595), but his residence ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850 • Various

... malbonodora. Noisy (of children) petola. Nomad migranto. Nomadic migranta. Nom-de-plume pseuxdonomo. Nomenclature nomaro. Nominal nominala. Nominative nominativo. Nonchalance apatio. Nonconformist nekonformisto. Nondescript nepriskriba. None neniom. Nonentity neestajxo. Nonsense sensencajxo, malsagxeco. Non-success malprospero. Nook anguleto. Noon tagmezo. Noose ligotubero. Nor nek. Normal normala. North nordo. Northerly norda. Northern norda. Nose nazo. Nosebag mangxujo. Nosegay bukedo. Nostril ...

— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... drawbacks," he lamented. "As a brother I am a nonentity, Lady Huntingford; it's not altogether relishable, you know. It's a sort of pantomime, for me, by Jove. I'm the fool, and this seems ...

— Nedra • George Barr McCutcheon

... rage, and grew paler and paler; he shook his fist. So the pair walked along a few steps. Gania did not stand on ceremony with the prince; he behaved just as though he were alone in his room. He clearly counted the latter as a nonentity. But suddenly he seemed to have ...

— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... cousins were married, one living on the farm with his mother, the other having struck out for himself. And Miss Eliza Leverett was weakly. Like many women of that period, when all hope of marrying and having a home of her own was past, she sank down into a gentle nonentity and dreamed of Cousin Chilian. Not that she had expected to captivate him, but life with some one like that would set one on ...

— A Little Girl in Old Salem • Amanda Minnie Douglas

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