nonentity

Other forms of nonentity

plural

nonentities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nonentity

What does nonentity mean?

nonentity means "the state of not existing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nonentity?

nonentity has 4 syllables: no-nen-ti-ty. The stress falls on "nen". In IPA it is /nɑˈnɛntəti/.

What is another word for nonentity?

Close synonyms include nonexistence, cipher, cypher, nobody. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nonentity a common word?

nonentity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.