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NONEXISTENT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not having existence or being or actuality
Example:
chimeras are nonexistent
Classified under:
Similar:
absent; lacking; missing; wanting (nonexistent)
barren; destitute; devoid; free; innocent (completely wanting or lacking)
nonextant (no longer existing or inaccessible through loss or destruction)
vanished (having passed out of existence)
Also:
extinct ((of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive)
Attribute:
being; beingness; existence; face of the earth (the state or fact of existing)
Antonym:
existent (having existence or being or actuality)
Derivation:
nonexistence (the state of not existing)