nonentityn.

Brit.

/nɒˈnɛntᵻti/,

/nəˈnɛntᵻti/, U.S.

/nɑnˈɛn(t)ədi/

Forms: see non- prefix and entity n.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: non- prefix, entity n.

Etymology: < non- prefix + entity n. With sense 2 compare post-classical Latin nonentitas (13th cent. in a British source).

a. A non-existent thing; a thing which exists in the imagination only; a nothing. Now chiefly Philosophy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > that which is non-existent > a thing that does not exist

noughta1425

goat woola1522

goat's wool1550

non-ens1603

nonentity1604

non-existence1646

nothingness1652

non-existent1658

non-being1662

not-being1725

non-existenta1856

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun] > imaginary form, fiction

fantasy1362

figurec1384

feigning1388

idol1577

idea1593

nonentity1604

figment1624

spectre1708

1604 C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. II. vi. xiii. 38 Our commanders, to whom particular fortunes are esteemed non-entities, and men in seueral of no valew.

1642 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. xvi. 81 It is a fancy, a dream, a meer non entity.

1653 T. Whitfield Treat. Sinfull Men iii. 7 Sin being a defect or privation, and so a kinde of none entity.

1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. ix. 347 Satan was not such a Fool as not to know that Baal was a Non Entity, a Nothing.

1765 Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 136 We are not at liberty to frame terms out of our own heads, in order to serve an indefensible hypothesis; nor will a grammatical conjecture, as I apprehend, realize a non-entity.

1800 B. Thompson tr. A. von Kotzebue Count Benyowsky i. 12 Courage without power is a nonentity.

1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. ii. 55 We are aware that mermaids do not exist: why speak of them as if they did? How can you find interest in speaking of a nonentity?

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) III. v. 77 What..has no qualities, has no existence in thought,—it is a logical nonentity.

1906 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 3 130 How can a nonentity be the subject of a proposition?

1991 Jrnl. Philos. 88 178 The inconsequentialities of Euclidean space are not the product of a confused hypothesis about a nonentity.

b. Non-existent matter; that which does not exist. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > that which is non-existent

naughtOE

nothing1535

nothingnessa1631

non-existence1646

nonentity1656

nihilation1695

nonent1885

1656 H. More Antidote Atheism App. vii. §1 334 Non-entity can have no affection or property.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. x. 312 No more than I would argue with pure nothing; or endeavour to convince Non-entity, that it were something.

1738 Gentleman's Mag. May 242/1 Who can conceive the nameless Vacuum, the Non-entity, that lies beyond those limits?

1892 J. Tait Mind in Matter (ed. 3) 17 Total unfamiliarity with entity coming out of non-entity, by mental process.

a1916 J. Payne Way of Winepress (1920) 8 Black's..The hue incorporate of the ice-bound sea, Of Chaos cold and blank Nonentity.

2. Chiefly Philosophy. The quality or condition of not existing; non-existence, non-being.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun]

noughtOE

unbeing1435

non-beingc1443

nullity?1573

non esse1585

not-beinga1586

unexistence1593

nihilhood1602

non-essence?1605

inexistence1623

never-being1633

nonentity1643

non-existence1646

no-being1651

inexistency1660

nihility1678

cipherhooda1680

vacuitya1711

nothingness1766

nihilism1856

thinglessness1874

not-ness1933

nullness1949

1643 K. Digby Observ. Religio Medici 34 Who understandeth the nature of contradiction, will find Non Entity in one of the termes.

1697 D. Baker Poems upon Several Occas. 96 My Wishes are more gen'rous than to be Reduced to my First Non-entity.

1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator II. 284 If this Doctrine of a Non-Entity after Death should become universal, the Corruption of it would..be so too.

1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. vi. 201 He wished to deprive them of their very existence; and laboured to persuade himself..of their nonentity.

1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI cxx. 124 How odd, a single hobgoblin's non-entity Should cause more fear than a whole host's identity.

1899 M. H. Dziewicki Wyclif's De Logica iii. p. xxv The non-entity of the world did not precede its entity.

1940 Mind 44 316 A being on the lower threshold of agency would..by its tenuity, de-substantialize its objective universe towards qualitative nonentity.

1975 R. Howard tr. E. M. Cioran Short Hist. Decay i. 26 The only meaning time has is to multiply these units, endlessly—to enlarge these vertical sufferings which depend upon a nonentity of matter.

1996 A. Ostriker Crack in Everything 18 That same child, some long-ago August In her Utah backyard examining a turtle That feigns nonentity itself.

3. The condition of being a person or thing of no significance; insignificance.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun]

smallness1541

nothingness1646

nonentity1654

insignificancy1661

non-significancy1670

insignificance1714

unimportance1751

inconsequence1759

non-entityism1846

negligibility1896

negligibleness1906

1654 J. Price Tyrants & Protectors 43 His heart is hunted out of his earthly holds, he sees the uncertainty of earthly glory, the vanity, the non-entity of outward pomp.

1837 J. D. Lang Hist. Acct. New S. Wales II. 30 It becomes a matter of importance to prove either the death or the nonentity of the English husband.

1882 L. S. Bevington Poems & Lyrics 88 Moral fruitlessness, and will's nonentity.

a1972 C. Day Lewis Coll. Poems (1992) 678 All that entranced, endorsed, enslaved—With gimcrack ornaments have achieved Nonentity.

1984 V. S. Naipaul Finding Centre ii. 39 After the quiet and order of our two years as a separate unit we were returned to the hubbub of the extended family and our scattered nonentity within it.

1998 K. Chisholm Fanny Burney iv. 66 She committed to her diary a farewell to nonentity.

4. A person or thing with no special or interesting qualities; a characterless, unimportant, or insignificant person or thing.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant

unknownc1390

pawnc1450

semi-cipher?1550

bauble1570

Jack with the feather1581

nobody1583

winterling1585

squash1600

rush candle1628

niflec1635

nullity1657

nonentity1710

featherweight1812

underscrub1822

nyaff1825

small fish1836

no-account1840

little fish1846

peanut1864

commonplacer1874

sparrow-fart1886

Little Willie1901

pipsqueak1905

nebbish1907

pie-biter1911

blob1916

smallie1930

no-count1932

zilch1933

Mickey Mouse1935

muzhik1945

nerd1951

nothingburger1953

nerk1955

non-person1959

no-mark1982

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 118. ⁋6 The Esquire of a neighbouring village, who had been a long time in the number of non-entities, is entirely recovered by them.

1751 Mem. Lady of Quality in T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. lxxxviii. 104 The insignificance of lord ——, who, tho' a nominal husband, was, in fact, a mere non-entity.

1806 T. Holcroft Tales in Verse I. 70 Some pedagogues, I own, agree, That you are a nonentity.

1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. iii. 17 He was an atom, a nonentity, a very worm, and no man.

1883 M. D. Chalmers & E. Hough Bankruptcy Act p. ix An Act was passed which very much limited their duties, and practically reduced them to nonentities.

1912 ‘Saki’ Unbearable Bassington i. 19 No man whose death can produce the item ‘another by-election’ on the news posters can be wholly a nonentity.

1943 A. Rand Fountainhead iii. vi. 504 One is a total nonentity who's done nothing more outstanding than eating, sleeping and chatting with neighbors.

1998 R. Gordon Ailments through Ages 16 He was a comparatively unintelligent professional nonentity, who became a medical Rasputin.

Derivatives

non-ˈentityism n. rare

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun]

smallness1541

nothingness1646

nonentity1654

insignificancy1661

non-significancy1670

insignificance1714

unimportance1751

inconsequence1759

non-entityism1846

negligibility1896

negligibleness1906

1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. I. 9 Byron..characterized our century as ‘the age of bronze’. The truth..would be far greater, were it defined as ‘the age of non-entityism!’

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nonentity
释义	nonentityn. Brit. /nɒˈnɛntᵻti/, /nəˈnɛntᵻti/, U.S. /nɑnˈɛn(t)ədi/ Forms: see non- prefix and entity n. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: non- prefix, entity n. Etymology: < non- prefix + entity n. With sense 2 compare post-classical Latin nonentitas (13th cent. in a British source). 1. a. A non-existent thing; a thing which exists in the imagination only; a nothing. Now chiefly Philosophy. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > that which is non-existent > a thing that does not exist noughta1425 goat woola1522 goat's wool1550 non-ens1603 nonentity1604 non-existence1646 nothingness1652 non-existent1658 non-being1662 not-being1725 non-existenta1856 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun] > imaginary form, fiction fantasy1362 figurec1384 feigning1388 idol1577 idea1593 nonentity1604 figment1624 spectre1708 1604 C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. II. vi. xiii. 38 Our commanders, to whom particular fortunes are esteemed non-entities, and men in seueral of no valew. 1642 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. xvi. 81 It is a fancy, a dream, a meer non entity. 1653 T. Whitfield Treat. Sinfull Men iii. 7 Sin being a defect or privation, and so a kinde of none entity. 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. ix. 347 Satan was not such a Fool as not to know that Baal was a Non Entity, a Nothing. 1765 Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 136 We are not at liberty to frame terms out of our own heads, in order to serve an indefensible hypothesis; nor will a grammatical conjecture, as I apprehend, realize a non-entity. 1800 B. Thompson tr. A. von Kotzebue Count Benyowsky i. 12 Courage without power is a nonentity. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. ii. 55 We are aware that mermaids do not exist: why speak of them as if they did? How can you find interest in speaking of a nonentity? a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) III. v. 77 What..has no qualities, has no existence in thought,—it is a logical nonentity. 1906 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 3 130 How can a nonentity be the subject of a proposition? 1991 Jrnl. Philos. 88 178 The inconsequentialities of Euclidean space are not the product of a confused hypothesis about a nonentity. b. Non-existent matter; that which does not exist. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > that which is non-existent naughtOE nothing1535 nothingnessa1631 non-existence1646 nonentity1656 nihilation1695 nonent1885 1656 H. More Antidote Atheism App. vii. §1 334 Non-entity can have no affection or property. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. x. 312 No more than I would argue with pure nothing; or endeavour to convince Non-entity, that it were something. 1738 Gentleman's Mag. May 242/1 Who can conceive the nameless Vacuum, the Non-entity, that lies beyond those limits? 1892 J. Tait Mind in Matter (ed. 3) 17 Total unfamiliarity with entity coming out of non-entity, by mental process. a1916 J. Payne Way of Winepress (1920) 8 Black's..The hue incorporate of the ice-bound sea, Of Chaos cold and blank Nonentity. 2. Chiefly Philosophy. The quality or condition of not existing; non-existence, non-being. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] noughtOE unbeing1435 non-beingc1443 nullity?1573 non esse1585 not-beinga1586 unexistence1593 nihilhood1602 non-essence?1605 inexistence1623 never-being1633 nonentity1643 non-existence1646 no-being1651 inexistency1660 nihility1678 cipherhooda1680 vacuitya1711 nothingness1766 nihilism1856 thinglessness1874 not-ness1933 nullness1949 1643 K. Digby Observ. Religio Medici 34 Who understandeth the nature of contradiction, will find Non Entity in one of the termes. 1697 D. Baker Poems upon Several Occas. 96 My Wishes are more gen'rous than to be Reduced to my First Non-entity. 1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator II. 284 If this Doctrine of a Non-Entity after Death should become universal, the Corruption of it would..be so too. 1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. vi. 201 He wished to deprive them of their very existence; and laboured to persuade himself..of their nonentity. 1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI cxx. 124 How odd, a single hobgoblin's non-entity Should cause more fear than a whole host's identity. 1899 M. H. Dziewicki Wyclif's De Logica iii. p. xxv The non-entity of the world did not precede its entity. 1940 Mind 44 316 A being on the lower threshold of agency would..by its tenuity, de-substantialize its objective universe towards qualitative nonentity. 1975 R. Howard tr. E. M. Cioran Short Hist. Decay i. 26 The only meaning time has is to multiply these units, endlessly—to enlarge these vertical sufferings which depend upon a nonentity of matter. 1996 A. Ostriker Crack in Everything 18 That same child, some long-ago August In her Utah backyard examining a turtle That feigns nonentity itself. 3. The condition of being a person or thing of no significance; insignificance. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] smallness1541 nothingness1646 nonentity1654 insignificancy1661 non-significancy1670 insignificance1714 unimportance1751 inconsequence1759 non-entityism1846 negligibility1896 negligibleness1906 1654 J. Price Tyrants & Protectors 43 His heart is hunted out of his earthly holds, he sees the uncertainty of earthly glory, the vanity, the non-entity of outward pomp. 1837 J. D. Lang Hist. Acct. New S. Wales II. 30 It becomes a matter of importance to prove either the death or the nonentity of the English husband. 1882 L. S. Bevington Poems & Lyrics 88 Moral fruitlessness, and will's nonentity. a1972 C. Day Lewis Coll. Poems (1992) 678 All that entranced, endorsed, enslaved—With gimcrack ornaments have achieved Nonentity. 1984 V. S. Naipaul Finding Centre ii. 39 After the quiet and order of our two years as a separate unit we were returned to the hubbub of the extended family and our scattered nonentity within it. 1998 K. Chisholm Fanny Burney iv. 66 She committed to her diary a farewell to nonentity. 4. A person or thing with no special or interesting qualities; a characterless, unimportant, or insignificant person or thing. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant unknownc1390 pawnc1450 semi-cipher?1550 bauble1570 Jack with the feather1581 nobody1583 winterling1585 squash1600 rush candle1628 niflec1635 nullity1657 nonentity1710 featherweight1812 underscrub1822 nyaff1825 small fish1836 no-account1840 little fish1846 peanut1864 commonplacer1874 sparrow-fart1886 Little Willie1901 pipsqueak1905 nebbish1907 pie-biter1911 blob1916 smallie1930 no-count1932 zilch1933 Mickey Mouse1935 muzhik1945 nerd1951 nothingburger1953 nerk1955 non-person1959 no-mark1982 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 118. ⁋6 The Esquire of a neighbouring village, who had been a long time in the number of non-entities, is entirely recovered by them. 1751 Mem. Lady of Quality in T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. lxxxviii. 104 The insignificance of lord ——, who, tho' a nominal husband, was, in fact, a mere non-entity. 1806 T. Holcroft Tales in Verse I. 70 Some pedagogues, I own, agree, That you are a nonentity. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. iii. 17 He was an atom, a nonentity, a very worm, and no man. 1883 M. D. Chalmers & E. Hough Bankruptcy Act p. ix An Act was passed which very much limited their duties, and practically reduced them to nonentities. 1912 ‘Saki’ Unbearable Bassington i. 19 No man whose death can produce the item ‘another by-election’ on the news posters can be wholly a nonentity. 1943 A. Rand Fountainhead iii. vi. 504 One is a total nonentity who's done nothing more outstanding than eating, sleeping and chatting with neighbors. 1998 R. Gordon Ailments through Ages 16 He was a comparatively unintelligent professional nonentity, who became a medical Rasputin. Derivatives non-ˈentityism n. rare ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] smallness1541 nothingness1646 nonentity1654 insignificancy1661 non-significancy1670 insignificance1714 unimportance1751 inconsequence1759 non-entityism1846 negligibility1896 negligibleness1906 1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. I. 9 Byron..characterized our century as ‘the age of bronze’. The truth..would be far greater, were it defined as ‘the age of non-entityism!’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1604
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