nonexist

present singular third person nonexists · participle present nonexisting · participle past nonexisted · past nonexisted

1. intransitiveTo not exist; to unexist.

   Like the Buddha, samsara and Nirvana neither exist nor nonexist, nor both exist and nonexist, nor neither exist nor nonexist.

   1974, John Boyer Noss, Man’s Religions, fifth edition, page 160

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   Nothing is by the laws of the mind to be held as having no beginning, which we can rationally conceive to have once nonexisted and then begun.

   1860, Charles Kittredge True, The Elements of Logic, page 167

   The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical. They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each nonexisted in an entirely different way.

   1974, Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, The Cyberiad

   Of something that does not satisfy the presupposition of the pair exists and nonexists, and so neither exists nor nonexists, we cannot ask why it exists.

   1993, Daniel Kolak, Self, Cosmos, God, page 370