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countable and uncountable, plural nonentities
(countable) An unimportant or insignificant person. quotations examples
The Queen Mother detests, but she dreads me—my uncle is indifferent, but finds me of use—our new Queen is already a nonentity—and Louis knows that my house is the most agreeable in Paris.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), pages 201–202
But I am not the penniless nonentity I was when we first met; I can offer an honorable if not a brilliant marriage; and at the very lowest I can provide my wife – my widow, my relict – with a decent competence, an assured future.
1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise
Imagine them not even getting his name right, Weasley. It's almost as though he's a complete nonentity, isn't it?
2000, J.K. Rowling, quoting Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, page 203
(uncountable) The state of not existing; nonexistence. quotations examples
New objects, new amusements, will occupy her mind; and unhappiness, equally unsuspected and unspoken, will die of its own nonentity.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 201