英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈbiːɪŋ/

名詞

unbeing (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 unbeings)

1. (uncountable) Nonexistence.
   • 1997, Migene González-Wippler, What happens after death, page 3:

     What we fear most is not death itself but the prospect of not being, or rather of unbeing, a state where we altogether cease to exist. The idea of unbeing is so alien to us that we find it almost impossible to conceive.

2. (countable) A nonbeing; an entity of no existence or significance.
   • 1987, Hari Mohan Prasad, The Dramatic Art of Eugene O'Neill, page 23:

     The house is pale as though its life-blood were sucked and the Cabots reduced to unbeings.

同意語

• (nonexistence): See also Thesaurus:inexistence

形容詞

unbeing (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Not in existence, nonexistent.
   • c. 1670s, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals

     Beings yet unbeing