unbeing

plural unbeings

1. uncountableNonexistence.

   What we fear most is not death itself but the prospect of not being, or rather of unbeing, a state where we altogether cease to exist. The idea of unbeing is so alien to us that we find it almost impossible to conceive.

   1997, Migene González-Wippler, What happens after death, page 3

2. countableA nonbeing; an entity of no existence or significance.

   The house is pale as though its life-blood were sucked and the Cabots reduced to unbeings.

   1987, Hari Mohan Prasad, The Dramatic Art of Eugene O'Neill, page 23

1. not comparableobsoleteNot in existence, nonexistent.

   Beings yet unbeing

   c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the section)”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, →OCLC