nonentitive

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English

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Etymology

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From nonentity +‎ -ive.

Adjective

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nonentitive (not comparable)

  1. (now rare) Without substance. [from 19th c.]
    • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 102:
      But in Trafalagar Square my gentlemanly uniqueness had diminished to something almost nonentitive.

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