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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nonentity \Non*en"ti*ty\, noun; pl. {Nonentities}.
1. Nonexistence; the negation of being.
2. A thing not existing. --South.
3. A person or thing of little or no account; an unimportant person; -- usually used as a disparaging term. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
nonentity
noun
1: the state of not existing [syn: {nonexistence}] [ant: {being}]
2: a person of no influence [syn: {cipher}, {cypher}, {nobody}]
3: a nonexistent thing [syn: {nothing}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
102 Moby Thesaurus words for "nonentity": Middle America, Milquetoast, a nobody, a nothing, absence, baby, big baby, bourgeoisie, burgherdom, chicken, cipher, common man, crybaby, deprivation, doormat, dud, dull tool, dummy, emptiness, figurehead, fourth-rater, gutless wonder, hollow man, insignificancy, invertebrate, jackstraw, jellyfish, lay figure, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity, meek soul, middle class, middle order, middle orders, milksop, mollycoddle, namby-pamby, nebbish, negation, negativeness, negativity, nihility, no great shakes, no prize, nobody, nobody one knows, nobody special, nonbeing, nonexistence, nonoccurrence, nonreality, nonsubsistence, not-being, nothing, nothing special, nothingness, nullity, obscurity, pansy, pantywaist, pip-squeak, punk, puppet, pushover, runt, rushlight, sad sack, scrub, second-rater, shrimp, silent majority, sissy, small, small beer, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, softling, softy, sop, squirt, squit, suburbia, thing of naught, third-rater, tinhorn, trifle, unactuality, unreality, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, weak sister, weakling, whiffet, whippersnapper, zero, zilch
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