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English
Noun
non-entity (plural non-entities)
- Alternative form of nonentity.
1645, Alexander Ross, The Philosophicall Touch-Stone: or Observations upon Sir Kenelm Digbie’s Discourses of the Nature of Bodies, and of the Reasonable Soule. , London: James Young, , page 64:If you diſlike the terme of entitie to be given to whiteneſſe, and union, and likeneſſe; then they muſt be non-entities: for the one or the other they muſt needs be, ſeeing there is no medium between entity and non-entity.
1820 January, an Italian, “Letters from Venice”, in The London Magazine, 2nd edition, volume I, number I, London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, page 57, column 1:Driven thus back on himself, the Venetian nobleman seemed now to lose even the last remains of his former vigour: he degenerated into a complete non-entity, through a tacit and unnatural isolation, which was not so much the effect of design as the consequence of his own inferiority.
2016 May 12, Shannon Proudfoot, “Sophie’s role: What do we expect of prime ministers’ spouses?”, in Maclean’s, archived from the original on 12 May 2016:If we look at Stephen Harper’s wife, she was basically a non-entity in public. She maintained real distance from political life and just kept doing her own thing.
2016 July, Gerard Minuhin, Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil: Recognize the True Enemy and Join to Fight Him, 2nd edition, Uckfield: Castle Hill Publishers, →ISBN, page 185:The choice of such non-entities in ostensibly important positions betrays their servile role.