"nonent" meaning in English

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          "text": "[Xenophanes] only accepts as truth that the ent (or existent) is, while the nonent (or non-existing) is not, the ent being \"perfect on every side, like the mass of a rounded sphere, equidistant from the centre at every point,\" continuous.",
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          "text": "It would seem then that the whole subject of predication was to Zeno a mystery, and that it was upon the theory of the impossibility of predication that he rested his denial of the nonent.",
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        "(philosophy) That which does not exist."
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