Nonentity
noun
A person or thing with no special or interesting features; an unimportant person.
He felt he was a nonentity when compared with the famous actors in the room.
Often appears as...
- feel like a nonentity
- become a nonentity
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
Something that doesn't exist or exists only in the imagination.
The supposed time machine is a nonentity – it does not exist.
Often appears as...
- remain a nonentity
- classify as a nonentity
Usage tips
Neutral
Technical, Academic
noun
A person or thing with no special or interesting features; an unimportant person.
He felt he was a nonentity when compared with the famous actors in the room.
Often appears as...
- feel like a nonentity
- become a nonentity
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
Something that doesn't exist or exists only in the imagination.
The supposed time machine is a nonentity – it does not exist.
Often appears as...
- remain a nonentity
- classify as a nonentity
Usage tips
Neutral
Technical, Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Self-Esteem Impact
Can imply someone feels insignificant or overlooked, affecting their self-esteem.
Surrounded by experts, she felt like a nonentity.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtlety in Insult
It's a subtle way to express that someone is unimportant; can be a polite insult.
In the vast corporation, he was treated as a nonentity.
Pro Tip 3/3Contrasting Significance
Often used to describe a contrast between someone's perception and reality.
Despite her success, she still felt like a nonentity at home.
Pro Tip 1/3Self-Esteem Impact
Can imply someone feels insignificant or overlooked, affecting their self-esteem.
Surrounded by experts, she felt like a nonentity.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtlety in Insult
It's a subtle way to express that someone is unimportant; can be a polite insult.
In the vast corporation, he was treated as a nonentity.
Pro Tip 3/3Contrasting Significance
Often used to describe a contrast between someone's perception and reality.
Despite her success, she still felt like a nonentity at home.
Pro Tip 1/3Self-Esteem Impact
Can imply someone feels insignificant or overlooked, affecting their self-esteem.
Surrounded by experts, she felt like a nonentity.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtlety in Insult
It's a subtle way to express that someone is unimportant; can be a polite insult.
In the vast corporation, he was treated as a nonentity.
Pro Tip 3/3Contrasting Significance
Often used to describe a contrast between someone's perception and reality.
Despite her success, she still felt like a nonentity at home.
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Quote examples
Bill Browder
American Activist
Russia is really a sort of a nonentity when it comes to - the economy is the size of the state of New York. Their military budget is 5 percent of the U.S. military budget. We shouldn't even be thinking about Russia other than the fact that they're sort of putting their nose into every bit of terrible activity all over the world.
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Josh Widdicombe
English Comedian
I wasn't into making classmates laugh - or any of the comedy cliches. I wanted to disappear. I was a nonentity. I wasn't too clever but I wasn't in the bottom group. I wasn't loud but I wasn't quiet. I wasn't a bully and I wasn't bullied.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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Tucker Max
American Author
My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I got to be about 16 or so. My mom was a flight attendant for PanAm, so I moved all over the world. London, Rio de Janeiro.
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Ian Hacking
Canadian Philosopher
Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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Charles Bock
American Writer
I never ran away, but I was very unhappy as a teenager. I felt like a complete nonentity, and I very tangibly have memories of not wanting to be here - in my body.
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Barbara Stanwyck
American Actress
Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
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Bill Browder
American Activist
Russia is really a sort of a nonentity when it comes to - the economy is the size of the state of New York. Their military budget is 5 percent of the U.S. military budget. We shouldn't even be thinking about Russia other than the fact that they're sort of putting their nose into every bit of terrible activity all over the world.
Quote examples
Josh Widdicombe
English Comedian
I wasn't into making classmates laugh - or any of the comedy cliches. I wanted to disappear. I was a nonentity. I wasn't too clever but I wasn't in the bottom group. I wasn't loud but I wasn't quiet. I wasn't a bully and I wasn't bullied.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
Quote examples
Tucker Max
American Author
My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I got to be about 16 or so. My mom was a flight attendant for PanAm, so I moved all over the world. London, Rio de Janeiro.
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Ian Hacking
Canadian Philosopher
Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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Charles Bock
American Writer
I never ran away, but I was very unhappy as a teenager. I felt like a complete nonentity, and I very tangibly have memories of not wanting to be here - in my body.
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Barbara Stanwyck
American Actress
Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
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