What does nonentity mean?
Definitions for nonentity
nɒnˈɛn tɪ tinonen·ti·ty
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Princeton's WordNet
nonexistence, nonentitynoun
the state of not existing
cipher, cypher, nobody, nonentitynoun
a person of no influence
Wiktionary
nonentitynoun
the state of not existing; nonexistence
nonentitynoun
an unimportant or insignificant person
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Nonentitynoun
Etymology: non and entity.
When they say nothing from nothing, they must understand it as excluding all causes. In which sense it is most evidently true; being equivalent to this proposition, that nothing can make itself, or, nothing cannot bring its no-self out of nonentity into something. Richard Bentley, Serm.
There was no such thing as rendering evil for evil, when evil was truly a nonentity, and no where to be found. South.
We have heard, and think it pity that your inquisitive genius should not be better employed, than in looking after that theological nonentity. Scriblerus Club , Mart. Scrib.
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nonentity
A nonentity is a person or thing with no special or interesting qualities; an unimportant or insignificant person or thing. It can also refer to something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination.
Webster Dictionary
Nonentitynoun
nonexistence; the negation of being
Nonentitynoun
a thing not existing
Nonentitynoun
a person or thing of little or no account
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Nonentity
non-en′ti-ti, n. want of entity or being: a thing not existing: a person of no importance.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of nonentity in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of nonentity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of nonentity in a Sentence
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.
Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
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