nonexistent

See also: non-existent

English

Alternative forms

• non-existent
• non-existant, nonexistant (misspelling)

Etymology

From non- +‎ existent.

Adjective

nonexistent (not comparable)

1. Not existent or existing; not real.

   Synonyms: inexistent; see also Thesaurus:inexistent

   "Hrunk" is a nonexistent word.

   His social skills are nonexistent: he chewed with his mouth open all through dinner.

   • 1994, William Martin Hunt, Decennial Census: 1995 Test Census Presents Opportunities to Evaluate New Census-Taking Methods, US General Accounting Office, page 4:

     In the 1995 Test Census, the Bureau plans to test the use of Postal Service letter carriers to identify vacant and nonexistent units when it mails census questionnaires.

   • 1996, Dale Jacquette, Meinongian Logic: The Semantics of Existence and Nonexistence, Walter de Gruyter, page 7:

     If there is anything of philosophical significance to be taken at face value in ordinary thought and language it is the reference and attribution of properties to existent and nonexistent objects.

   • 2015, Jonathan Gold, “Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy”, in Paperback, Columbia University Press, published 2016, page 275:

     Conversely, to return to the point at hand, nonexistent entities can be known, even by a Buddha, without being, thereby, substantial.

2. Not present or occurring.
   • 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 111:

     Large cranes were virtually non-existent in the areas I worked with this truck, so we jacked everything on and off[.]

   • 2018 January 4, Janie Tankard Carnock, “Frigid Baltimore City schools: The racism we haven’t confronted”, in CNN‎:

     The opposite issue emerges in the summer when students face scorching temperatures with unreliable or nonexistent air conditioning.

Related terms

• nonexistence
• nonexistential

Translations

not existent

Amharic: የለም (yelemi) Arabic: مَعْدُوم (maʕdūm) Armenian: գոյություն չունեցող (goyutʻyun čʻunecʻoġ) Belarusian: неісну́ючы (njeisnújučy) Bulgarian: несъществу́ващ (bg) (nesǎštestvúvašt) Catalan: inexistent Chinese: Mandarin: 不存在的 (zh) (bù cúnzài de) Czech: neexistující Danish: ikkeeksisterende Dutch: niet-bestaand Esperanto: neekzistanta Finnish: olematon (fi) French: inexistant (fr) Georgian: არარსებული (ararsebuli) German: nichtexistierend, nicht vorhanden, nicht existent, unbefindlich (extremely rare or dated) Haitian Creole: inègzistan Hungarian: nem létező (hu) Ido: nihilo (io) Italian: inesistente (it) Japanese: 存在しない (ja) (そんざいしない, sonzai shinai), 無い (ja) (ない, nai) Korean: 존재하지 않는 (jonjaehaji anneun) Macedonian: непостоечки (nepostoečki) Maltese: ineżistenti Polish: nieistniejący Portuguese: inexistente (pt) Romanian: neexistent, nonexistent, inexistent (ro) Russian: несуществу́ющий (ru) (nesuščestvújuščij) Rwanda-Rundi: kitariho Sanskrit: असत् (sa) (asat) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: непо́стоје̄ћӣ Roman: nepóstojēćī Slovak: neexistujúci Slovene: neobstoječ Spanish: inexistente (es) Swedish: obefintlig (sv), icke-existerande Turkish: mevcut olmayan, namevcut (tr) (dated) Ukrainian: неісну́ючий (neisnújučyj)

See also

• lost to the world

Noun

nonexistent (plural nonexistents)

1. Something that does not exist.
   • 2011, Carolyn Swanson, Reburial of Nonexistents, page 5:

     By showing that no true statements were about nonexistents, he dismissed any facts or knowledge about the so-called beingless.

Further reading

• Existence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia