nonbeing

Example Sentences

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The dao is characterized as the source of all things that exist, as the source of being and nonbeing.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

And not only the real — after all, even the basest trivialities are real — but the omnipresent, the immanent and the imminent, the stuff of being and nonbeing.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2021

But in the insomniac’s self-satisfaction there is also, perhaps, a genuine fear of the nonbeing, the nullity, of sleep.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 3, 2018

Not necessarily “death,” the eventual, eternal state of nonbeing, but death, the act: the exact moment when she stops breathing and life’s “isness” becomes isn’tness in terribly short order.

From Slate • May 4, 2016

“Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything,” replied Professor McGonagall.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling