nonexistence

See also: non-existence

English

Alternative forms

non-existence

Etymology

From non- +‎ existence.

Pronunciation

Audio (Mid-Atlantic US): (file)

Noun

nonexistence (countable and uncountable, plural nonexistences)

The state of not existing.
The nonexistence of Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy came as something of a shock.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:inexistence

Translations

The state of not existing

Arabic: عَدَم m (ʕadam)
Catalan: inexistència f
Esperanto: neekzistado
French: non-existence (fr) f
Greek: ανυπαρξία (el) f (anyparxía)
Italian: inesistenza (it) f
Japanese: 非実在 (hijitsuzai)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: لەناوچوون (lenawçûn), نەمان (neman)
Macedonian: непосто́ење n (nepostóenje), неби́тие n (nebítie)
Polish: nieistnienie (pl) n
Portuguese: inexistência (pt) f
Russian: несуществова́ние (ru) m (nesuščestvovánije)
Sanskrit: असत् (sa) n (asat)
Slovak: neexistencia
Spanish: inexistencia (es) f
Ukrainian: неіснува́ння n (neisnuvánnja), небуття́ n (nebuttjá)

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=nonexistence&oldid=81112101"