"nonexistence" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-us-nonexistence.ogg [Mid-Atlantic] Forms: nonexistences [plural]
Etymology: non- + existence Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|non|existence}} non- + existence Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} nonexistence (countable and uncountable, plural nonexistences)
  1. The state of not existing. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: inexistence, non-existence Translations (The state of not existing): عَدَم (ʕadam) [masculine] (Arabic), inexistència [feminine] (Catalan), لەناوچوون (lenawçûn) (Central Kurdish), نەمان (neman) (Central Kurdish), neekzistado (Esperanto), non-existence [feminine] (French), ανυπαρξία (anyparxía) [feminine] (Greek), inesistenza [feminine] (Italian), 非実在 (hijitsuzai) (Japanese), непосто́ење (nepostóenje) [neuter] (Macedonian), неби́тие (nebítie) [neuter] (Macedonian), nieistnienie [neuter] (Polish), inexistência [feminine] (Portuguese), несуществова́ние (nesuščestvovánije) [masculine] (Russian), असत् (asat) [neuter] (Sanskrit), neexistencia (Slovak), inexistencia [feminine] (Spanish), неіснува́ння (neisnuvánnja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), небуття́ (nebuttjá) [neuter] (Ukrainian)

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