nonexistence
See also: non-existence
English
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Audio (Mid-Atlantic US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪstəns
Noun
nonexistence (countable and uncountable, plural nonexistences)
- 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], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 9 April 2024:
- 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.
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The state of not existing
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ís
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