Nonexistent Meaning
/nˌɑnəˈɡzɪstənt/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjNot existent or existing; not real.
adjNot present or occurring.
Sentence Examples
Unemployment in this part of the country is virtually nonexistent.
The intention that he is watching a television is nonexistent.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The evidence for that claim is ____; there is no proof at all.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
During the summer drought, the flow of water in the small creek became almost ____.
Word Origin & History
From non- + existent.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"In the 1995 Test Census, the Bureau plans to test the use of Postal Service letter carriers to identify vacant and nonexistent units when it mails census questionnaires."
— 1994, William Martin Hunt, Decennial Census: 1995 Test Census Presents Opportunities to Evaluate New Census-Taking Methods, US General Accounting Office, page 4:
"If there is anything of philosophical significance to be taken at face value in ordinary thought and language it is the reference and attribution of properties to existent and nonexistent objects."
— 1996, Dale Jacquette, Meinongian Logic: The Semantics of Existence and Nonexistence, Walter de Gruyter, page 7:
"Conversely, to return to the point at hand, nonexistent entities can be known, even by a Buddha, without being, thereby, substantial."
— 2015, Jonathan Gold, “Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy”, in Paperback, Columbia University Press, published 2016, page 275:
"Large cranes were virtually non-existent in the areas I worked with this truck, so we jacked everything on and off[.]"
— 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 111:
"The opposite issue emerges in the summer when students face scorching temperatures with unreliable or nonexistent air conditioning."
— 2018 January 4, Janie Tankard Carnock, “Frigid Baltimore City schools: The racism we haven’t confronted”, in CNN:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The evidence for that claim is ____; there is no proof at all.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
During the summer drought, the flow of water in the small creek became almost ____.