nonentity
a person or thing of no importance.
something that does not exist or exists only in imagination.
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How to use nonentity in a sentence
Her husband is a nonentity who barely speaks, which is perhaps why he doesn’t appear in any of the Disney adaptations.
Fact: Talk radio remained a nonentity when it came to fundraising for candidates.
An indolent blonde, fond of dancing, but a nonentity from both the moral and the intellectual standpoints.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheLed astray by party spirit, the ministers sent Admiral Pigot, a mere nonentity, to supersede Rodney.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William HuntOlybrius, the then reigning nonentity, died in October of the same year.
Theodoric the Goth | Thomas Hodgkin
It is the name of a nonentity, and has no right to a place among first principles.
The Analysis of Mind | Bertrand RussellThe truth seems to be that as soon as Boccaccio was separated from life he became a nonentity.
Giovanni Boccaccio, a Biographical Study | Edward Hutton
British Dictionary definitions for nonentity
/ (ˌnɒnˈɛntɪtɪ) /
an insignificant person or thing
a nonexistent thing
the state of not existing; nonexistence
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