as in nothingness
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Recent Examples of nonexistence
The body simply won’t lose consciousness, and losing it is something that cannot be willed into existence, or, rather, into nonexistence.
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
There are a lot of ways to interpret that, but one thing that is built into the conceit of the show is that, for the innies, the choice is work or nonexistence.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
Our last conscious moment was the moment when our passing nonexistence and our final one would marry.
—Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Giving them physical form, Byers doubles down on Rabelais’ rhetorical position but also destabilizes it by materializing the books’ nonexistence.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
There are a lot of ways to interpret that, but one thing that is built into the conceit of the show is that, for the innies, the choice is work or nonexistence.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
Our last conscious moment was the moment when our passing nonexistence and our final one would marry.
—Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Giving them physical form, Byers doubles down on Rabelais’ rhetorical position but also destabilizes it by materializing the books’ nonexistence.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonexistence
Noun
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Eckhardt’s commentaries on God and scripture are dense and recursive, breaking ideas into component parts, placing them onto higher and lower planes, making hierarchies and triads out of them until eventually becoming something like an investigation into being and nothingness themselves.—
Jon Raymond
August 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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At nearly 60, a life of nothingness without love—what is the point?—
Greg Norman , David Spunt,
FOXNews.com,
2 Aug. 2025
Noun
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In rare cases, sleepers gain insight into the unreality of their dreams from within the dream itself.—
Rachel Barr,
Big Think,
20 Aug. 2025
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For Leader, this hammers home the unreality of a studio without an intense marketing machine around it.—
Ryan Gaur,
IndieWire,
10 June 2025
Noun
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The European Publishers Council criticized the absence of a breakup order.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Sep. 2025
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Almost exactly a year ago, Glasnow’s absence provided the impetus for Roberts’ rallying cry that carried the Dodgers to October.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Nonexistence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonexistence. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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