nonexistent

See also: non-existent

English[edit]

From non- +‎ existent.

nonexistent (not comparable)

Not existent or existing; not real.
Synonyms: inexistent; see also Thesaurus:inexistent

"Hrunk" is a nonexistent word.

His social skills are nonexistent: he chewed with his mouth open all through dinner.
- 1994, William Martin Hunt, Decennial Census: 1995 Test Census Presents Opportunities to Evaluate New Census-Taking Methods, US General Accounting Office, page 4:
  In the 1995 Test Census, the Bureau plans to test the use of Postal Service letter carriers to identify vacant and nonexistent units when it mails census questionnaires.
- 1996, Dale Jacquette, Meinongian Logic: The Semantics of Existence and Nonexistence, Walter de Gruyter, page 7:
  If there is anything of philosophical significance to be taken at face value in ordinary thought and language it is the reference and attribution of properties to existent and nonexistent objects.
- 2015, Jonathan Gold, “Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy”, in Paperback, Columbia University Press, published 2016, page 275:
  Conversely, to return to the point at hand, nonexistent entities can be known, even by a Buddha, without being, thereby, substantial.
Not present or occurring.
- 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 111:
  Large cranes were virtually non-existent in the areas I worked with this truck, so we jacked everything on and off[.]

nonexistence
nonexistential
lost to history: writings, objects, or knowledge from the past that no longer exist.

not existent

nonexistent (plural nonexistents)

Something that does not exist.
- 2011, Carolyn Swanson, Reburial of Nonexistents, page 5:
  By showing that no true statements were about nonexistents, he dismissed any facts or knowledge about the so-called beingless.