nonentity

Noun

Meaning

Nonexistence; the negation of being.

A thing not existing.

A person or thing of little or no account.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cypher nonexistence nobody cipher shrimp pygmy nil nothing zero dream punk void loser figurehead upstart
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Antonyms

kaiser archbishop duke empress commodore baron
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Hypernyms

commoner common man nonbeing common person

Hyponyms

void impossibility nothingness squirt nullity lightweight

Derivatives

nonentities

Examples

A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity. William James

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity. Barbara Stanwyck

My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I got to be about 16 or so. My mom was a flight attendant for PanAm, so I moved all over the world. London, Rio de Janeiro. Tucker Max

We are supposed to be the children of Seth but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization. Anthony Burgess

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. George Eliot

Close letter words and terms

nonentitative nonentitive nonentitize nonentityism nonentomological nonentomologist