nonentity

[ non-en-ti-tee ]
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noun,plural non·en·ti·ties.
  1. a person or thing of no importance.

  2. something that does not exist or exists only in imagination.

Origin of nonentity

1
First recorded in 1590–1600; non- + entity

Other words for nonentity

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How to use nonentity in a sentence

  • At the first, says the Rig-Veda, there was neither non-entity nor entity, and all was water wrapped in gloom.

British Dictionary definitions for nonentity

nonentity

/ (ˌnɒnˈɛntɪtɪ) /


nounplural -ties
  1. an insignificant person or thing

  2. a nonexistent thing

  1. the state of not existing; nonexistence

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