Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lack of existence; non-existence.
- noun Existence within; inherence. Also
inexistency .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Inherence; subsistence.
- noun That which exists within; a constituent.
- noun Lack of being or existence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of not
being , notexisting , or not beingperceptible . - noun The state of existing in something
Etymologies
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Examples
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I believe that the inexistence of the universe means that JG Ballard is not, nor ever will be, dead.
J.G. Ballard R.I.P 2009
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I believe that the inexistence of the universe means that JG Ballard is not, nor ever will be, dead.
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Never the murdered finalities of wherewhen and yesno, impotent nongames of wrongright and rightwrong; never to gain or pause, never the soft adventure of undoom, greedy anguishes and cringing ecstasies of inexistence; never to rest and never to have; only to grow.
Archive 2008-11-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008
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Now, this new is sort of weird to report only because I think we have never posted a story about Alicia Silverstone since we have been inexistence.
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Never the murdered finalities of wherewhen and yesno, impotent nongames of wrongright and rightwrong; never to gain or pause, never the soft adventure of undoom, greedy anguishes and cringing ecstasies of inexistence; never to rest and never to have; only to grow.
For Friends in Mourning (a Rare Personal Post) Mary Kate Hurley 2008
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Imagination exemplifies the power of human consciousness because it is a type of intentionality that posits in the same act both the existence of the object and its inexistence, since it “intends” it precisely as a virtual object.
Existentialist Aesthetics Deranty, Jean-Philippe 2009
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The objectivity of formations, however, is not to be understood in terms of intentional inexistence (Brentano) or in the sense of Platonic realism
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One the reasons for that, as I pointed out earlier, was the brutal colonialism of the west that economically imprisoned China for more years than your country has been inexistence.
Adam Hanft: The Speech I'd Want President Hu Jintao to Give in Response to President Bush 2008
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It features inventors of perpetual motion, theorists who claim the answer to squaring the circle, the inexistence of hell, universal languages, the structure of the universe, medicine, algebra or human sexuality.
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It features inventors of perpetual motion, theorists who claim the answer to squaring the circle, the inexistence of hell, universal languages, the structure of the universe, medicine, algebra or human sexuality.
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