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nonent

nonent noun: that which does not exist.

Noun

nonent

  1. That which does not exist.
    • [Xenophanes] only accepts as truth that the ent (or existent) is, while the nonent (or non-existing) is not, the ent being "perfect on every side, like the mass of a rounded sphere, equidistant from the centre at every point," continuous.1953, J. L. E. Dreyer, A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler, page 20
    • It would seem then that the whole subject of predication was to Zeno a mystery, and that it was upon the theory of the impossibility of predication that he rested his denial of the nonent.2012, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson, The Journal of Philology, volume 14, page 226

Questions about nonent

What does nonent mean?
Nonent means that which does not exist.
What part of speech is nonent?
Nonent is a noun.

Words near nonent in the dictionary

  1. nonenrolled
  2. nonenrollee
  3. nonenrollees
  4. nonenrolment
  5. nonensemble
  6. nonent
  7. nonentailed
  8. nonentangled
  9. nonentanglement
  10. nonenteric
  11. nonenterococcal

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