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nonexistence

nonexistence noun: the state of not existing.

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

nonexistence meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit and Arabic

nonexistence in Hindi

The state of not existing
अनस्तित्व anastitva

nonexistence in Urdu

nonexistence, negation, nonentity, nothingness, void
عدم 'adam

nonexistence in Sanskrit

The state of not existing
असत् asat

nonexistence in Arabic

The state of not existing
عَدَم ʕadam

Synonyms of nonexistence

Forms of nonexistence

pluralnonexistences
alternative formnon-existence

Origin of nonexistence

From non- + existence.

Words that rhyme with nonexistence

Questions about nonexistence

What does nonexistence mean?
Nonexistence means the state of not existing.
What is nonexistence in Hindi?
Nonexistence in Hindi is अनस्तित्व (anastitva). See Nonexistence meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is nonexistence?
Nonexistence is a noun.
What is the plural of nonexistence?
The plural of nonexistence is nonexistences.

Words near nonexistence in the dictionary

  1. nonexhibitionist
  2. nonexhibitionistic
  3. nonexist
  4. nonexistant
  5. nonexisted
  6. nonexistence
  7. nonexistences
  8. nonexistent
  9. nonexistential
  10. nonexistents
  11. nonexisting

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nonexistence (page history and authors); عدم (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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