What's the difference between nonentity and unimportant?

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.

Unimportant


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The amount of EB or progesterone injected seemed unimportant but, in either case, had to be given within a limited diurnal period of sensitivity.
  • (2) For example, we hypothesize that competition can be unimportant even if it is very intense: no such hypothesis is possible unless importance is distinguished from intensity.
  • (3) A comparison of the time course of this time-locked response with that of the kernel prediction indicated that nonlinear temporal effects of order higher than two are unimportant.
  • (4) Nucleotide pyrophosphatases seem to play an unimportant role in guanylyl imidodiphosphate conversion, while alkaline phosphatase is possibly of more importance.
  • (5) Moreover, M1-muscarinic receptors appear to be relatively unimportant in mediating the effects of carbachol on short circuit current (ISC).
  • (6) Cl measured with each method exceeded Crs (p less than .05), but the magnitude was clinically unimportant.
  • (7) According to these results the acetylator phenotype seems to be an unimportant factor in therapy with dihydralazine.
  • (8) Snoring usually is trivial and unimportant, but it can turn into a social or medical problem.
  • (9) Analysis of this time delay as a function of the factor Xa concentration indicates that the gain of the feedback loop of factor V activation by thrombin is so high that the contribution of factor V activation by factor Xa is relatively unimportant for factor Xa concentrations in the nanomolar range.
  • (10) This is unusual, although clinically unimportant muscle involvement in trypanosomiasis has been described.
  • (11) But he is warm and sharp, and the punchlines begin to feel unimportant when the journey there is so much fun.
  • (12) Since this phenomenon is associated with high concentrations of contrast media in nonflowing blood, the high shear rate in arteries and arterioles make it unimportant in the in vivo situation.
  • (13) Didn't they realise how unimportant it all was, compared with what we'd been through?"
  • (14) The contribution made by cytotoxicity to the overall antiviral effect (measured by 24 h yield) was negligible in Flow 2002 cells, and was relatively unimportant in BHK cells.
  • (15) Safety was very satisfactory: patients complained only rarely of trivial and clinically unimportant side effects; no variations in laboratory tests were noted.
  • (16) Our results suggest that the osmotic and free-radical scavenging properties of hexoses are relatively unimportant in relation to their antiarrhythmic effects.
  • (17) Items loading on the first three factors were thought to be generally important, and those on the last three relatively unimportant.
  • (18) The basis of the program is a valid 'partial' statistical description of the EEG; that description is then used to produce a digital representation of a signal which, if plotted sequentially, might or might not by chance resemble an EEG, that is unimportant.
  • (19) The involvement of General Practitioners in the care of epilepsy was found to be small, but not unimportant.
  • (20) Pocket elimination by the use of surgical procedures (gingivectomy, flap operation with bone surgery) may be preferred in regions of the mouth where the aesthetic result is unimportant and where the removal of alveolar bone does not jeopardize the periodontal support of neighbouring teeth.