nonexistence

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Lack of being

Nouns

1. nonexistence, inexistence, nonentity, nonsubsistence, negativeness, nullity, nihility, blank, nothingness, absence, no such thing, void, vacuum, oblivion. Slang, diddly[squat], dick, jack[shit]. See disappearance, insubstantiality.

2. annihilation, extinction, obliteration, nullification, destruction.

3. nonperson, unperson; vaporware.

Verbs

1. not exist, be null and void, cease to exist, pass away, perish, become extinct, die out; disappear, fade (see disappearance); go, be no more, die (see death).

2. annihilate, render null [and void], nullify, abrogate, destroy, obliterate, extinguish, remove. See destruction, killing.

Adjectives

1. nonexistent, inexistent, null [and void], negative, blank, missing, omitted, absent.

2. unreal, baseless, unsubstantial, imaginary, visionary, ideal, fabulous, legendary, chimerical, supposititious, vain. See imagination.

3. unborn, uncreated, unbegotten, unconceived, unproduced, unmade.

4. annihilated, extinct, exhausted, perished, gone, lost, departed, defunct.

Quotations — A thing of beauty is a joy forever, its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness (John Keats), Nothing can be created out of nothing (Lucretius), Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion (Democritus).

Antonyms, see existence.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. nonbeing, negation, nothingness; see oblivion 2 .

III

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun The condition of not existing: nihility, nothing, nothingness. See ABSENCE.