inexistent

[in-ig-zis-tuhnt]

adjective

1. not existent; having no existence; nonexistent.

inexistent

/ ˌɪnɪɡˈzɪstənt /

adjective

1. a rare word for nonexistent

Other Word Forms

• inexistence noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of inexistent¹

1640–50; < Late Latin inexistent- (stem of inexistēns ) not existing. See in- ³, existent

Example Sentences

The family lived in a small flat, where electricity was intermittent and heating, inexistent.

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Free speech in the country continues to be basically inexistent.

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Yodel’s performance ends and begins with Anne as the headstrong independent woman 21st-century audiences should enjoy, which means that Anne’s journey from a meek, yielding young woman toward a confident and self-possessed one becomes muted, virtually inexistent.

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In response, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned that ongoing “forced conscription, indiscriminate detention, forced disappearances, torture, physical and sexual violence, discrimination in access to housing, land and property as well as poor or inexistent basic services” made Syria unsafe.

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In short, a “thinking organ could be fooled into believing in an inexistent reality.”

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