unthing

plural unthings

1. Something irrelevant or inconsequential; a non-issue; an absurdity.

   They made a thing of an unthing and put it on paper.

   1964, Testimony of members of Congress, interested individuals, and organizations

   3 more examples

   Whether or not PPB is an unthing in the federal bureaucracy, the budgetary concepts that are represented by it and its conceptual predecessors are still viable within OMB: control, management, and planning.

   1998, U.C. Mandal, J. Rawat, Public Administration: Principles and Practice, page 272

   This hidden heart essence, so secret, An unthing untouched by the eterne […]

   2006, Anne Carolyn Klein, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Unbounded Wholeness

   It does not follow from either the metaphor or the possibility of defining this space mathematically that it must be Leibniz's dreaded unthing “unthing” – a something that is nothing.

   2015, Catherine Wilson, Leibniz's Metaphysics, page 218

   Synonyms: nothingburger