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

Each vignette of time reveals how time, our upbringing, and even our individual dreams shape the path of our lives and who ultimately ends up beside us for the ride.

— Emmalee Reed, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
In childhood, in adulthood, in her old age, Evans was besotted by dreams, turbulent, awesome, pictorial dreams.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of dream

Noun

In the trailer, the civilians are selling themselves as a new breed of nobodies.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2026
Despite the tragicomic instability and the rotating cast of nobodies temporarily tasked with running the country, when seen in macroeconomic terms, Peru appears to be doing just fine, thank you.

— Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 4 June 2026

Definition of nobody

Noun

The key to this illusion is a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, first predicted by Albert Einstein's 1915 theory of gravity, general relativity, which also first predicted the existence of gravitational waves.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Beyond The Leadership Balance Beam The balancing beam is an unnecessary illusion.

— Michael Corvini, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of illusion

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

The image, captured a year earlier by the Hubble Space Telescope, showed UGC 9050-Dw1, a dwarf galaxy some 115 million light-years from Earth.

— Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Watching all ten members sing at once is funny the way the seven dwarves all sleeping in their little beds next to each other is funny.

— Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of dwarf

Noun

The next day, Luwi had a similar daydream, but this time the disapproving patriarch was Gajdusek.

— Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
And amidst the momentum of reverie, there’s the line ‘Blink at the light and hope to survive,’ because daydreams in a fascist state can be scary too.

— Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 23 June 2026