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nonexistence
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nonexistence \Non`ex*ist"ence\, n.
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The state of not existing; absence of existence; the negation of being; -- usually used with reference to existince in the real world, or logical possiblity; as, the nonexistence of vaporware does not go unnoticed long.
--A. Baxter.Syn: nonentity[1].
A thing that has no existence.
--Sir T. Browne.
Wiktionary
n. The state of not existing.
WordNet
Usage examples of "nonexistence".
In time, even, perhaps the Von Kharkov shell itself would fade back into nonexistence, now that its creator was gone.
The affable, sixtyish scientist had a high forehead that had only grown more prominent as his hairline receded to near nonexistence.
Bakhtin saw the Tolstoyan self, at its most intense moments, vainly seeking that nirvana, which to Bakhtin was nonexistence.
There was a momentary flash of sapphire light, a faint smell of ozone, and a lingering but rapidly dissipating coil of pale blue vapor corkscrewing its way upward into nonexistence where an instant before the subofficer had been standing.
The railroads were thus permitted to adduce evidence to show that the discrimination was justified, but the act expressly stated that the existence of competition at some points and its nonexistence at others should not be deemed a sufficient justification of discrimination.
Even now, spent and respent, a coin fingered and thinned to the worn edge of nonexistence, there was power out there, enough to flatten planets.
The conversations she had with others in the settlement never touched on the subject she knew was in everyone's minds, as if the people thought they could will the incident into nonexistence by carefully avoiding it Clodagh appeared on her doorstep the first morning, a lumpy bundle in one big hand and four cats at her heels.
His intimacy with Beaune is a rich fantasy projected from his charming brother's detailed stories of wines to remind Jean-Baptiste of his deprivation and nonexistence.
A house and a half down the street, all of Cobbs Creek faded to nonexistence.
From the fluid pressure and from its chemical makeup it is possible to draw useful conclusions as to the existence or nonexistence of a brain tumor or abscess, of meningitis or other infection, and so on.
And knows that this stranger may now inhabit the most liminal place of all, poised perhaps on the brink of nonexistence, or about to enter some existence unimagined.
Some have criticized this effort because it shows that my faith in the nonexistence of the immaterial is so blind that I refuse to believe even the material evidence of immateriality.
She wondered if the temporary state of nonexistence through which she was passing in any way resembled what the Sleeper experienced during his long journey toward wakefulness.
This was not the gentle dissolution of consciousness into the void of nonexistence.