non-entity

plural non-entities

1. alternativeAlternative form of nonentity.

   Who was she? She was such a non-entity for me, and yet I do remember her face and body.

   1991, Fleur Jaeggy, translated by Tim Parks, Sweet Days of Discipline, New Directions, published 1993, →ISBN, page 24

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   If you diſlike the terme of entitie to be given to whiteneſſe, and union, and likeneſſe; then they muſt be non-entities: for the one or the other they muſt needs be, ſeeing there is no medium between entity and non-entity.

   1645, Alexander Ross, The Philosophicall Touch-Stone: or Observations upon Sir Kenelm Digbie’s Discourses of the Nature of Bodies, and of the Reasonable Soule. […], London: […] James Young, […], page 64

   Driven thus back on himself, the Venetian nobleman seemed now to lose even the last remains of his former vigour: he degenerated into a complete non-entity, through a tacit and unnatural isolation, which was not so much the effect of design as the consequence of his own inferiority.

   1820 January, an Italian, “Letters from Venice”, in The London Magazine, 2nd edition, volume I, number I, London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, page 57, column 1

   If we look at Stephen Harper’s wife, she was basically a non-entity in public. She maintained real distance from political life and just kept doing her own thing.

   2016 May 12, Shannon Proudfoot, “Sophie’s role: What do we expect of prime ministers’ spouses?”, in Maclean’s, archived from the original on 12 May 2016

   The choice of such non-entities in ostensibly important positions betrays their servile role.

   2016 July, Gerard Minuhin, Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil: Recognize the True Enemy and Join to Fight Him, 2nd edition, Uckfield: Castle Hill Publishers, →ISBN, page 185