Definitions
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- noun uncountable
nonexistence - noun countable That which is not a
being ; a potential entity that does not exist.
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- noun the state of not being
Etymologies
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Examples
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We must not treat terms as as if they were simple: 'nonbeing' and 'being', for they are both compound.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Protestant theologian Paul Tillich talks about our affirmation of life and faith as an act of courage in the perpetual face of "nonbeing."
Lynn Casteel Harper: Aging with Courage: The Beginning of a Living Faith 2010
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The painting's background was entirely black – the colour of mourning, the colour of night, the void between being and nonbeing.
The Mirror of Venus Megan Arkenberg 2010
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The painting's background was entirely black – the colour of mourning, the colour of night, the void between being and nonbeing.
Archive 2010-06-01 Megan Arkenberg 2010
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He believed that the cosmos was comprised of being, or substance, and nonbeing, or nothingness.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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Through acts of courage (a necessary companion to what Tillich calls "living faith"), we learn to resist hiding every time we see dark silhouettes -- those reminders of our own nonbeing -- cast on the valley floor.
Lynn Casteel Harper: Aging with Courage: The Beginning of a Living Faith 2010
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"The unrepentant sinner merely passes into nonbeing: which after all is what he wants, increasingly while he's alive; the prospect of new life being steadily more problematic and tiresome to him."
Ben Evans: The Real Horned Man: Exploring the Genius of Author James Lasdun 2010
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He believed that the cosmos was comprised of being, or substance, and nonbeing, or nothingness.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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He was giraffe thin and much too tall but full of sinews; snapped proof of the nonbeing of Minnows with his Polaroid.
Minnows 2010
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He believed that the cosmos was comprised of being, or substance, and nonbeing, or nothingness.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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