inexistence

noun

Definition of inexistencenext
as in nonexistence

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  1. nonexistence
  2. nothingness
  3. unreality
  4. absence
Noun
  • The worry was that interfaith couples would not raise their children as Jewish, shrinking the Jewish community into nonexistence.
    Samira Mehta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The Ultimates #4 dives deeper into the Fantastic Four's nonexistence in this world.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2024
Definition of nonexistence
Noun
  • Empty space threatens to overwhelm her lattice of pinpricks and sparkles; her granular timbres often seem on the verge of dissolving into nothingness.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 5 Dec. 2024
  • At this point, resisting the urge to rotate, the superfluid suddenly spawns a single quantum vortex — a whorl of atoms surrounding a column of nothingness that extends to the bottom of the bucket.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of nothingness
Noun
  • Four centuries after Galileo, the United States has become an epicenter of unreality.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Through its official media, ISIS stoked support around the world for its vivid unreality—the Salafi jihadist utopia—and presented a comprehensive and exactingly consistent picture of what life there was supposedly like.
    Charlie Winter, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2017
Definition of unreality
Noun
  • Rookie Tristan da Silva, who’s already started 14 games in the absence of Banchero, is bound to take on a larger role, too.
    Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2024
  • The Constitution contains provisions that prevent a total government shutdown in the absence of a budget, permitting the country to carry out basic functions such as collecting taxes and paying civil servants.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of absence
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