Nonentity
noun
noun ·4 syllables ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An unimportant or insignificant person. countable
"The Queen Mother detests, but she dreads me—my uncle is indifferent, but finds me of use—our new Queen is already a nonentity—and Louis knows that my house is the most agreeable in Paris."
- 2 a person of no influence wordnet
- 3 The state of not existing; nonexistence. uncountable
"New objects, new amusements, will occupy her mind; and unhappiness, equally unsuspected and unspoken, will die of its own nonentity."
- 4 the state of not existing wordnet
Example
More examples"The Queen Mother detests, but she dreads me—my uncle is indifferent, but finds me of use—our new Queen is already a nonentity—and Louis knows that my house is the most agreeable in Paris."
Etymology
From non- + entity.
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