noun

nonexistence

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Nonexistence (noun) means the fact of not existing.

noun

The fact of not existing.

"To hear Carlson foam, you’d think that each time a devious immigrant sneaks into the United States and reaches for a voter registration form, a White American in Peoria blinks into nonexistence." — Philip Bump, ‘Great replacement theory’ is ignorant both broadly and narrowly (2022)

"The nonexistence of Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy came as something of a shock."

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