Meaning of NONENTITY
| Pronunciation: | | nâ'nentitee
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- [n] a nonexistent thing
- [n] a person of no influence
- [n] the state of not existing
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| | Synonyms: | | cipher, cypher, nobody, nonexistence, nothing |
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| | Antonyms: | | being, beingness, existence | | |
| | See Also: | | common man, common person, commoner, impossibility, impossibleness, irreality, jackanapes, lightweight, nonbeing, nothingness, nullity, pip-squeak, small fry, squirt, thing, unreality, void, whippersnapper | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Non*en"ti*ty\, n.; pl. {Nonentities}.
1. Nonexistence; the negation of being.
2. A thing not existing. --South.
3. A person or thing of little or no account. [Colloq.]
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| | Related Terms: | | a nobody, a nothing, absence, baby, big baby, bourgeoisie, burgherdom, chicken, cipher, common man, crybaby, deprivation, doormat, dud, dull tool, dummy, emptiness, figurehead, fourth-rater, gutless wonder, hollow man, insignificancy, invertebrate, jackstraw, jellyfish, lay figure, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity, meek soul, Middle America, middle class, middle order, middle orders, milksop, Milquetoast, mollycoddle, namby-pamby, nebbish, negation, negativeness, negativity, nihility, no great shakes, no prize, nobody, nobody one knows, nobody special, nonbeing, nonexistence, nonoccurrence, nonreality, nonsubsistence, not-being, nothing, nothing special, nothingness, nullity, obscurity, pansy, pantywaist, pip-squeak, punk, puppet, pushover, runt, rushlight, sad sack, scrub, second-rater, shrimp, silent majority, sissy, small, small beer, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, softling, softy, sop, squirt, squit, suburbia, thing of naught, third-rater, tinhorn, trifle, unactuality, unreality, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, weak sister, weakling, whiffet, whippersnapper, zero, zilch |
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