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non·en·ti·ty

(nŏn-ĕn′tĭ-tē)

n. pl. non·en·ti·ties

1. A person regarded as being of no importance or significance.

2. Nonexistence.

3. Something that does not exist or that exists only in the imagination.

nonentity

(ˌnɒnˈɛntɪtɪ)

n, pl -ties

1. an insignificant person or thing

2. a nonexistent thing

3. the state of not existing; nonexistence

non•en•ti•ty

(nɒnˈɛn tɪ ti)

n., pl. -ties.

1. a person or thing of no importance.

2. something that does not exist or exists only in imagination.

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Noun	1.	nonentity - the state of not existing nonexistence nonbeing - the state of not being irreality, unreality - the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact nihility, nothingness, nullity, void - the state of nonexistence impossibility, impossibleness - incapability of existing or occurring
	2.	nonentity - a person of no influence nobody, cypher, cipher common man, common person, commoner - a person who holds no title pip-squeak, small fry, squirt - someone who is small and insignificant jackanapes, whippersnapper, lightweight - someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous

nonentity

noun nobody, lightweight (informal), mediocrity, cipher, small fry, non-person, unimportant person She was written off after that as a political nonentity.

nonentity

noun

A totally insignificant person:

cipher, nebbish, nobody, nothing.

Informal: pip-squeak, zero.

Slang: shrimp, zilch.

Translations

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nonentity

[nɒˈnentɪtɪ] N (= person) → nulidad f, cero m a la izquierda

nonentity

[nɒˈnɛntɪti] n → personne f insignifiante
Grant came from a family of nonentities → Grant venait d'une famille de gens insignifiants.
She was written off then as a political nonentity → On la considérait alors comme une femme politique insignifiante.non-essential [ˌnɒnɪˈsɛnʃ^əl] nonessential (US)

adj [services, goods] → non essentiel(le)

n
nonessentials → l'accessoire m

nonentity

n (= person) → Nullität f, → unbedeutende Figur

nonentity

[nɒnˈɛntɪtɪ] n → persona insignificante, nullità f inv

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True, the slavery and abasement in which she held me might have given me (such things often do so) the power to question her with abrupt directness (seeing that,, inasmuch as I figured in her eyes as a mere slave and nonentity, she could not very well have taken offence at any rude curiosity); but the fact was that, though she let me question her, she never returned me a single answer, and at times did not so much as notice me.

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It was as if she enjoyed looking forward to something in which nothing, neither an unsympathetic mother, nor the cruel fate which had made her a colourless little nonentity, could prevent her from being the chief performer.

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Miss Millward was there, it is true, but she, of course, would be little better than a nonentity.

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It is the name of a nonentity, and has no right to a place among first principles.

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It needed the utmost delicacy, the greatest nicety, but she has managed things so that that fool, that conceited baggage, that provincial nonentity, simply because she is the widow of a major, and has come to try and get a pension and to fray out her skirts in the government offices, because at fifty she paints her face (everybody knows it) .

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Perhaps before he exterminates that unfortunate nonentity he will condescend to give some reasons for the adverse views which he has formed.

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You are a vulgar, silly nonentity, and you shall go back to where you belong, whatever low place you have sprung from, and beg your bread--that is if anybody's charity will have anything to do with you, which I doubt--"

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Intellectually a nonentity," Ossipon pronounced aloud, abandoning suddenly the inward contemplation of Mrs Verloc's bereaved person and business.

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He was, in truth, a rare phenomenon; so perfect, in one point of view; so shallow, so delusive, so impalpable such an absolute nonentity, in every other.

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So full marks to the boss for recognising she and "The Big K" Karthik are indispensable to this series and firing nonentity Natalie.

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To think for example, a dull faceless nonentity playing a ukelele with shades of George Formby on a bad day received the endorsement of the voters in preference over Seann.