nonexistence

noun

Definition of nonexistencenext
as in nothingness

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Recent Examples of nonexistence Our last conscious moment was the moment when our passing nonexistence and our final one would marry. — Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 Giving them physical form, Byers doubles down on Rabelais’ rhetorical position but also destabilizes it by materializing the books’ nonexistence. — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024 The worry was that interfaith couples would not raise their children as Jewish, shrinking the Jewish community into nonexistence. — Samira Mehta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024 The Ultimates #4 dives deeper into the Fantastic Four's nonexistence in this world. — Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for nonexistence
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonexistence
  1. nothingness
  2. unreality
  3. absence
Noun
  • Alexander Vilenkin, meanwhile, has suggested that the universe instead emerged spontaneously from a state of nothingness via a strange quantum mechanics phenomenon known as quantum tunneling.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Mike himself has been hollowed out into nothingness, his character chipped away into a hollow avatar for a sensitive, caring man dedicated to providing women pleasure.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of nothingness
Noun
  • Julie Andrews sells The Sound of Music with her effervescent performance, and the wooden, awkward bits around her are, now, almost endearing — a kitschy self-own acknowledging the unreality of the whole operation.
    — Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Conor’s passionately absorbing, poignantly observed self-refraction from individuality into idiosyncrasy lends his very reality an air of unreality.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025
Definition of unreality
Noun
  • Lewis-Skelly has been the Premier League’s outstanding Englishman at left-back since breaking through in December (particularly in the absence of Lewis Hall) and deserves to be considered Tuchel’s primary option at that position.
    — Steve Madeley, The Athletic, 20 Mar. 2025
  • More often, people make informal assessments or base it on cultural fit or like-me bias in the absence of objective metrics.
    — Julie Kratz, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
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“Nonexistence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonexistence. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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