NONBEING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of not being

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("nonbeing" is a kind of...):

state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nonbeing"):

nonentity; nonexistence (the state of not existing)

Antonym:

being (the state or fact of existing)

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