What's the difference between nonentity and nonexistence?

Nonentity


Definition:

  • (n.) A thing not existing.
  • (n.) Nonexistence; the negation of being.
  • (n.) A person or thing of little or no account.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A nonentity introduces me to a moderately talented guitarist named Johnny Marr who is friends with a useless drummer called Mike Joyce and a bassist whose name I can't remember.
  • (2) But then personne turned out to be called Joseph Laniel, a nonentity who was prime minister from June 1953 to June 1954.
  • (3) As well as providing an excuse for Corbyn to promote nonentities, refusal denies senior MPs a ready-made platform from which to express their dissent.” The party reported that a further 15,000 people had joined the party since Corbyn’s election on Saturday.
  • (4) "The prime minister is a nonentity, except as the appointee of Asif Ali Zardari."
  • (5) As merely the king-in-waiting he is a constitutional nonentity.
  • (6) Apple once held 18 per cent of the computing market, but years of clumsy marketing, bungled relationships with developers, and unruly product lines left it almost a nonentity: a mere 3 per cent of the computing population used Macs prior to the iMac.
  • (7) Crushing the rival bids of political nonentities like Dmitry Medvedev is child's play for him.
  • (8) In the span of a year he burnt bridges with both the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks, while becoming something of a nonentity on the court.
  • (9) Yet again, this spoiled nonentity is cosseted by his party: though he stands as an “independent”, the Conservatives will try to save his bacon by setting no candidate against him, to avoid splitting their vote.
  • (10) Unlike in France or Germany, engineers are a bit of a nonentity here.
  • (11) In Stamford Way, he repeatedly attacks Clegg as a nonentity whose only claim to fame is his U-turn over student tuition fees – " a protoplasmic, amoebic, vacillating, jelly of indecision".
  • (12) He said the victims were informed that their new employer was a nonentity and that they had been ripped off on arrival at what they expected to be their first day of work.
  • (13) Vice-president Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi, a Saleh appointee and a former military man from the south who is something of a nonentity, has temporarily taken charge as required by the constitution .
  • (14) The word "spasm" has been purposefully omitted as it is essentially a nonentity in vascular trauma.
  • (15) As well as providing an excuse for Corbyn to promote nonentities, refusal denies senior MPs a ready-made platform from which to express their dissent.
  • (16) A nervous nation, unsure what it has done to itself, is subject to the tedious, vituperative comments from one Conservative nonentity about another.
  • (17) Its outrage was directed at the bland evil of war, the US Army Air Force (USAAF), and the bureaucratic scheming of military nonentities.

Nonexistence


Definition:

  • (n.) Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity.
  • (n.) A thing that has no existence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) KCl thus appears to induce an intermediate which is either nonexistent when omitted or in such low concentration as not to be readily detected.
  • (2) The correlations of C3, C4, CH50 and factor B with abnormal clearance and disease activity were weaker or nonexistent.
  • (3) Anterior segment involvement was slight or nonexistent, and damage to the retina and uvea was of a focal rather than of a diffuse nature.
  • (4) Although the use of anticancer agents can be associated with severe side effects, on a practical basis complications of therapy are minimal to nonexistent.
  • (5) Early or late mortality among patients with isolated aortic coarctation was nonexistent, and it was 28.5% in patients with other congenital heart defects.
  • (6) Compartmentalization of germ cells in the seminiferous epithelium, therefore, was nonexistent.
  • (7) Doxycycline and other antibiotics have been implicated in oral contraceptive (OC) failure, but information is sparse and studies of a doxycycline-OC interaction are nonexistent.
  • (8) This enzymatic activity probably contributes to the steady state level of micronuclear histone acetylation that is low or nonexistent.
  • (9) But most of them were the first members of their family to adopt the veil, the majority had no niqab-wearing peers, their attendance at their mosque was minimal, and their affiliation to any Islamic bodies almost nonexistent.
  • (10) In the case of Wistar and Sprague-Dawley rats, the boosting effect of IL-2 on NK levels was either poor or nonexistent.
  • (11) Previous functional studies with the rat jugular vein have shown alpha-adrenergically mediated contraction was minimal to nonexistent, yet this tissue relaxed in response to norepinephrine via beta 1 and to isoproterenol via beta 2-receptor activation.
  • (12) After the third attempt, successful capsulotomies are either very rare or nonexistent.
  • (13) A small dependence of the intracellular relaxation rate on extracellular paramagnetic agent concentration, assumed nonexistent with the HG method, is inferred from the new analysis.
  • (14) The court relied on testimony of medical experts that the risk to patients from general practitioners with AIDS could be reduced, by training and education, to nonexistence, and emphasized that confidentiality is of paramount importance to AIDS patients and therefore is in the public interest.
  • (15) The thermodynamic study suggests a quantitative relationship of radiopharmaceutical:protein = 1:1 and an almost nonexistent influence of the temperature, which means that the interacting forces in this process are relatively weak.
  • (16) Hence in both groups, the percentage PRL suppression was significantly reduced compared with the control group, and indeed nonexistent in cortisol-nonsuppressed patients.
  • (17) In most instances, the evaluation is incomplete or nonexistent.
  • (18) In contrast, the infiltration of B lymphocytes was virtually nonexistent with few or no sIgM positive cells present in the lesions after either 4 or 14 days of exposure to ozone.
  • (19) "So it's nonexistent and it's false that we are at the moment looking for a goalkeeper."
  • (20) Although human studies are nonexistent, in those experimental organisms tested, using accepted techniques, LSD proved to be, at best, a weak mutagen, if mutagenic at all.