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nonentity definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the state of not existing [syn: nonexistence, nonentity] [ant: being, beingness, existence]
2: a person of no influence [syn: cipher, cypher, nobody, nonentity]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1600 1. something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination 2. nonexistence 3. a person or thing of little consequence or significance

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 a person or thing of no importance. 2 a non-existence. b a non-existent thing, a figment. Etymology: med.L nonentitas non-existence

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nonentity 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.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(nonentities) If you refer to someone as a nonentity, you mean that they are not special or important in any way. Amidst the current bunch of nonentities, he is a towering figure... She was written off then as a political nonentity. = nobody N-COUNT [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Inexistence, non-existence. 2. Nothing. 3. Nothingness, insignificance, futility. 4. Nobody, cipher.

Moby Thesaurus

Middle America, Milquetoast, 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 class, middle order, middle orders, milksop, 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