nonbeing
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9.8
- noun
- /nɒnˈbiːɪŋ/
- Formal
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no ser
- As deficient or imperfect, human nature is a mixture of being and nonbeing, tending toward nothingness.
- the nonbeing of Unity
Examples
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The transformed life of discipleship practiced in a community in which the Spirit of Christ is present provides liberation from the burden of sin, alienation, and the threat of nonbeing.
Academic text (2011) -
The followers of the negative way have sought to leave behind being, nonbeing, life, religion, time, eternity, their entire repertoire, and all gods trapped in that repertoire.
Academic text (1990) -
Something must sustain it in and above the void of nonbeing.
Academic text (1992) -
"Good and evil lose their meaning, "and in the absolute being coincides with nonbeing."
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Perhaps another's death, that incontrovertible state of nonbeing, is easier to face than the marginal moment of dying.
Fiction book (1995) -
Therefore, waiting for Godot precipitates a process of nonbeing instead of being, the abject instead of the subject, subjection instead of identification.
Academic text (1997) -
The self-effacing Tantalic type is also constantly frustrated because his quietist ideal of melting back into the omnipresent nonbeing of Unity cannot be realized.
Academic text (1990) -
Philosophers often debate the concept of nonbeing and its implications for existence.
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She felt a deep sense of nonbeing after losing her loved one, as if a part of her had disappeared.
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In art, the contrast between existence and nonbeing can evoke powerful emotions in the viewer.
Synonyms
32
7.2
A state with no people or things in it
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7.0
A state in which something is not there
3
9.9
A state in which things do not have their own separate, lasting existence
A state in which nothing exists
A situation when something does not exist
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nonbeing is made from non- 'not' and being 'existence'. So, it means 'not existing' or the absence of being, the same idea you find in nonexistent.