nonentity

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An unimportant or insignificant person or thing. countable
    — The Queen Mother detests, but she dreads me—my uncle is indifferent, but finds me of use—our new Queen is already a nonentity—and Louis knows that my house is the most agreeable in Paris.
  2. The state of not existing; nonexistence. uncountable
    — New objects, new amusements, will occupy her mind; and unhappiness, equally unsuspected and unspoken, will die of its own nonentity.

词形变化

nonentities plural non-entity alternative

词源

Etymology tree
English non-
English entity
English nonentity
From non- + entity.
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