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nonentity

[non-en-ti-tee] / nɒnˈɛn tɪ ti /
NOUN
nullity
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NOUN
nonexistent thing
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“What universal binomial denominations were his as Entity and Nonentity? Assumed by any or known to none he was Everyman or Noman.”

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2018

Wild Bill was killed on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 1876 in the Number Ten Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Nonentity Jack McCall.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nonentity though he might be, she would have given much for a glimpse of his inner soul just then.

From The Swindler and Other Stories by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

Thus by degrees it passed into a Doubt, a Relation, some faint Possibility; and at last into a highly-probable Nonentity.

From Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Oxenford, John

Georgina treats me like a Perfect Nonentity and then he comes——It's so inconsiderate.

From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)




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