Nonentity

Definitions

1. An unimportant or insignificant person.
   countable
2. The state of not existing; nonexistence.
   uncountable

Equivalents

13 more languages

العربيةالتّافهعدم

Češtinanýmand

Ελληνικάανθρωπάριομηδενικό

Suominolla

Íslenskanúll

Latinanullitas

Nederlandsschertsfiguur

Polskimiernotanicość

Русскийничтожество

Slovenčinaniktoš

Svenskanolla

Українськанікче́ма

اردوادنی

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.”

“But I am not the penniless nonentity I was when we first met; I can offer⟳ an honorable if not a brilliant marriage; and at the very lowest I can provide⟳ my wife – my widow, my relict – with a decent competence, an assured future.”

“Imagine⟳ them not even getting his name⟳ right, Weasley, it's almost as though he's a complete⟳ nonentity, isn't it?”

“He allowed himself to become⟳ a nonentity, a void, a receptacle for the voices of the world.”

“New objects, new amusements, will occupy⟳ her mind⟳; and unhappiness, equally unsuspected and unspoken, will die⟳ of its own⟳ nonentity.”

“Gay men have⟳ no identity. They appropriate badly that of straight men who are all fucked up in the first place⟳ over thir ^([sic]) mythic masculinity stereotype. So, twice removed, the gay man flounders through life doubly fucked up dancing the dance⟳ of non-entity around the bright, burning flame of sex, power and upward mobility.”

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