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NONBEING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nonbeing mean?
• NONBEING (noun)
The noun NONBEING has 1 sense:
1. the state of not being
Familiarity information: NONBEING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of not being
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("nonbeing" is a kind of...):
state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nonbeing"):
nonentity; nonexistence (the state of not existing)
Antonym:
being (the state or fact of existing)
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