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non-existent (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of nonexistent
   • 1954 February, Trevor Holloway, “Canada's Transcontinental Routes”, in Railway Magazine, page 127:

     Roads were practically non-existent and travel was undertaken mainly by water, streams and rivers providing the only practical routes.

   • 1961 February, D. Bertram, “The lines to Wetherby and their traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 103:

     It is hardly surprising, therefore, that the present rail passenger service is meagre and between Wetherby and Church Fenton almost non-existent.

参照

• “non-existent”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

語源

From non- +‎ existent.

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形容詞

nonexistent (not comparable)

1. Not existent or existing; not real.

   Synonyms: inexistent; see also Thesaurus:inexistent

   "Hrunk" is a nonexistent word.

   His social skills are nonexistent: he chewed with his mouth open all through dinner.

   • 1994, William Martin Hunt, Decennial Census: 1995 Test Census Presents Opportunities to Evaluate New Census-Taking Methods, US General Accounting Office, page 4:

     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.

   • 1996, Dale Jacquette, Meinongian Logic: The Semantics of Existence and Nonexistence, Walter de Gruyter, page 7:

     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.

   • 2015, Jonathan Gold, “Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy”, in Paperback, Columbia University Press, published 2016, page 275:

     Conversely, to return to the point at hand, nonexistent entities can be known, even by a Buddha, without being, thereby, substantial.

2. Not present or occurring.
   • 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 111:

     Large cranes were virtually non-existent in the areas I worked with this truck, so we jacked everything on and off[.]

   • 2018 January 4, Janie Tankard Carnock, “Frigid Baltimore City schools: The racism we haven’t confronted”, in CNN‎:

     The opposite issue emerges in the summer when students face scorching temperatures with unreliable or nonexistent air conditioning.

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名詞

nonexistent (plural nonexistents)

1. Something that does not exist.
   • 2011, Carolyn Swanson, Reburial of Nonexistents, page 5:

     By showing that no true statements were about nonexistents, he dismissed any facts or knowledge about the so-called beingless.

Further reading

• Existence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia