nonexistence

See also: non-existence

English

Alternative forms

• non-existence

Etymology

From non- + existence.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪstəns

Noun

nonexistence (countable and uncountable, plural nonexistences)

1. The state of not existing.

   The nonexistence of Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy came as something of a shock.

   • 2022 May 17, Philip Bump, “‘Great replacement theory’ is ignorant both broadly and narrowly”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], archived from the original on 18 May 2022:

     To hear Carlson foam, you’d think that each time a devious immigrant sneaks into the United States and reaches for a voter registration form, a White American in Peoria blinks into nonexistence.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:inexistence

Translations

The state of not existing

• Arabic: عَدَم m (ʕadam)
• Catalan: inexistència f
• Esperanto: neekzistado
• French: non-existence (fr) f
• Georgian: არარსებულობა (ararsebuloba)
• Greek: ανυπαρξία (el) f (anyparxía)
• Hindi: अनस्तित्व (hi) m (anastitva)
• Italian: inesistenza (it) f
• Japanese: 非実在 (hijitsuzai)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: لەناوچوون (lenawçûn), نەمان (neman)

• Macedonian: непосто́ење n (nepostóenje), неби́тие n (nebítie)
• Polish: nieistnienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: inexistência (pt) f
• Russian: несуществова́ние (ru) m (nesuščestvovánije)
• Sanskrit: असत् (sa) n (asat)
• Slovak: neexistencia
• Spanish: inexistencia (es) f
• Ukrainian: неіснува́ння n (neisnuvánnja), небуття́ n (nebuttjá)