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      • a person without strong character, ideas, or influence: She was once a political nonentity, but has since won a formidable reputation as a determined campaigner.
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  2. The meaning of NONENTITY is something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination. How to use nonentity in a sentence.

  3. What does the noun nonentity mean? There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun nonentity . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

  4. a person without strong character, ideas, or influence: She was once a political nonentity, but has since won a formidable reputation as a determined campaigner. [ U ] the fact that something or someone is not known about because of not having any strong character, ideas, or influence:

  5. If you refer to someone as a nonentity, you mean that they are not special or important in any way. [disapproval] Amidst the current bunch of nonentities, he is a towering figure. She was written off then as a political nonentity. Synonyms: nobody, lightweight [informal], mediocrity, cipher More Synonyms of nonentity.

  6. Something that is an entity exists, and if you are considered a nonentity, you might as well not exist. A political nonentity has no power, and a social nonentity blends in with the wallpaper. Not only people are considered nonentities; groups or things can be nonentities too.

  7. Under Diocletian the senate became a political nonentity, the last traces of republican institutions disappeared, and were replaced by an absolute monarchy approaching to despotism.

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