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Nonentity

Nonexistence; the negation of being.

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Commoner 76% connected

One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.

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Impossibility 76% connected

The quality of being impossible; impracticability.

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Jackanapes 76% connected

A monkey; an ape.

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Nihility 76% connected

Nothingness; a state of being nothing.

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Nothingness 76% connected

Nihility; nonexistence.

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Nullity 76% connected

The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy or force.

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Squirt 76% connected

To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water.

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Unreality 76% connected

The quality or state of being unreal; want of reality.

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Void 76% connected

Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.

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Whippersnapper 76% connected

A diminutive, insignificant, or presumptuous person.

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Cipher 92% connected

A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

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Cypher 92% connected

See Cipher.

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Nobody 92% connected

No person; no one; not anybody.

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Nonexistence 92% connected

Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity.

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Existence 94% connected

The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existe…

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Existence 94% connected

The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existe…

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