NONENTITY Synonyms: 100 Similar and Opposite Words

nonentity

noun

ˌnän-ˈen-tə-tē

Definition of nonentity

as in dream

a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality the arctic circle is a nonentity—you won't see it on the way to the north pole

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as in nobody

a person of no importance or influence was so quiet he was almost a nonentity at the meeting

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Recent Examples of nonentity All Dickens heroes are complete nonentities who know 217 wacky people. — Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026 The mismatched band of captors can’t agree on anything, and thus cannot act; their captive, bound and sedated and locked in a crate, is a nonentity for much of the movie. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2026 Ram is a nonentity outside North America. — Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 17 May 2025 Pressed on one side by hard-liners and on the other by opponents of the Islamic Republic, the regime’s centrists and reformists had become political nonentities. — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nonentity

Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonentity

Noun

Friends, relatives, and loyal customers kept their dream alive as the business grew.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2026
She's worked for the air ambulance service for seven years and still calls it a dream job.

— Elaine Appleton-Grant, NPR, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of dream

Noun

The people who eventually brought Elf to the big screen came from wildly different corners of Hollywood, from nobodies to legends, executives to improvisers, Comedy Central to Saturday Night Live.

— Andy Richter with Aaron Karo, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2026
His presence was transformative; Stewart made the goofiest, most easily disregarded TV franchise for nerds and nobodies into a work full of warmth and gravitas.

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of nobody

Noun

There’s that vibrancy and, on the other side of the ledger, dead boys, ciphers, unfinished or unfinishable quests.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
But in my view, our relationships to animals, whose lives are untouched by the existential woes and artifices of personhood, are the richest and most evident ciphers for our own often inscrutable psyches.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 June 2026

Definition of cipher

Noun

This helps warm up the imagination; daydreams, nightmares are easy ways in.

— Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026
The songs on Purdy also have the tone of journal entries, detailing haggard trips to the grocery store, daydreams about his young daughters’ glamorous adult lives, and observations about the banality of oppression.

— Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of daydream

Noun

The lightweight, over-ear headphones shipped with the very first Walkman and served as the blueprint for highly portable personal audio for years.

— Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026
Santoni showed off its lightweight Easy shoe collection with a slate of programing during marathon weekend in New York City.

— Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2026