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Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.
Mircea Eliade

Meaning of "nonbeing" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NONBEING

nonbeing  [ˌnɒnˈbiːɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NONBEING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nonbeing is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NONBEING


being
ˈbiːɪŋ
inbeing
ˈɪnˌbiːɪŋ
keying
ˈkiːɪŋ
monoskiing
ˈmɒnəʊˌskiːɪŋ
paraskiing
ˈpærəˌskiːɪŋ
refereeeing
ˌrefəˈriːɪŋ
seeing
ˈsiːɪŋ
sightseeing
ˈsaɪtˌsiːɪŋ
skiing
ˈskiːɪŋ
unbeing
ʌnˈbiːɪŋ
unforeseeing
ˌʌnfɔːˈsiːɪŋ
unseeing
ʌnˈsiːɪŋ
water-skiing
ˈwɔːtəskiːɪŋ
wellbeing
ˈwɛlˈbiːɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NONBEING

nonbacterial
nonbank
nonbarbiturate
nonbasic
nonbearing
nonbehavioral
nonbelief
nonbeliever
nonbelligerency
nonbelligerent
nonbetting
nonbinary
nonbinding
nonbiographical
nonbiological
nonbiologically
nonbiologist
nonbiting
nonblack
nonbody

WORDS THAT END LIKE NONBEING

ageing
anti-ageing
blueing
call into being
canoeing
cueing
dyeing
far-seeing
fellow being
for the time being
horseshoeing
human being
photo-ageing
snowshoeing
Supreme Being
swingeing
tie-dyeing
unageing
vogueing
whingeing

Synonyms and antonyms of nonbeing in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «nonbeing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NONBEING

Find out the translation of nonbeing to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of nonbeing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nonbeing» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

非存在
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

el no ser
570 millions of speakers

English

nonbeing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

nonbeing
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

nonbeing
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

небытия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

não-ser
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

nonbeing
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

non-être
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Nichtsein
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

nonbeing
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

nonbeing
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nonbeing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự không có
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

nonbeing
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

न थांबता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

nonbeing
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

non-essere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niebyt
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

небуття
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

neființa
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μη όν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nonbeing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nonbeing
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nonbeing
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nonbeing

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NONBEING»

The term «nonbeing» is normally little used and occupies the 141.661 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NONBEING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «nonbeing» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «nonbeing» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nonbeing

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QUOTES WITH «NONBEING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word nonbeing.
1
Mircea Eliade
Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NONBEING»

Discover the use of nonbeing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nonbeing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Ways of Naysaying: No, Not, Nothing, and Nonbeing
Eva Brann explores nothingness in the third book of her trilogy, which has treated imagination, time and now naysaying.
Eva T. H. Brann, 2001
2
Religiöse Schriften
of life or process or becoming, nonbeing is ontologically as basic as being. The acknowledgment of this fact does not imply a decision about the priority of being over nonbeing, but it requires a consideration of nonbeing in the very foundation  ...
Paul Tillich, Robert P. Scharlemann, 1988
3
Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism: ...
For instance, Laozi holds that being and nonbeing “spring forth from the same source, and yet they differ in name. This sameness is called 'profoundly dark'.” 72 He also points out: “being and nonbeinggivebirth to each other.” 73These ...
Youru Wang, 2003
4
Power, Form, and Mind
And it offers no gain of understanding over the definition of being as not nonbeing. The preference for the first definition indicates the greater familiarity of being in comparison with nonbeing in common experience and thought. But the ...
Arthur Berndtson, 1981
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From Concept to Objectivity: Thinking Through Hegel's ...
Admittedly, any constitution of determinacy from being and nonbeing is difficult to imagine without referring to the presence or absence of definite qualities, relations, and entities, which all have their definite character by possessing certain ...
Richard Dien Winfield, 2006
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Ibn al-'Arabi's Barzakh: The Concept of the Limit and the ...
Explores the concept of the Limit (barzakh), which the great Sufi mystic Ibn al-'Arabi used to address the philosophical controversy regarding God's relationship with the world.
Salman H. Bashier, 2012
7
Uncreated Timeless Self of Radiant Emptiness - Onliness ...
In Nonbeing, the prefix Trans-(in Trans-consciousness) is intended to mean “ beyond” or “outside-of ” Being Consciousness, but not in any sense above or below It. This polarity-within-unity Being and Nonbeing transcendent Consciousness is ...
Martin Treon, 2009
8
Plato's Sophist: Part II of The Being of the Beautiful
No logos, then, can be uttered about nonbeing; there cannot even be the logos that no logos can be uttered about nonbeing. Nonbeing seems to be the Parmenidean way of speaking of the Heracliteans, for the stranger's conclusions have the ...
Plato, Seth Benardete, 1986
9
The Being of the Beautiful: Plato's Theaetetus, Sophist, and ...
No logos, then, can be uttered about nonbeing; there cannot even be the logos that no logos can be uttered about nonbeing. Nonbeing seems to be the Parmenidean way of speaking of the Heracliteans, for the stranger's conclusions have the ...
Plato, 2008
10
Evermore Shall Be So: Ficino on Plato's Parmenides
For this reason the following are compatible with this one living, or flowing, nonbeing: inequality, equality, smallness, largeness, similarity, dissimilarity, change. Essence is also, to some extent, compatible with it, and rightly so, for the things we ...
Ficino, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NONBEING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nonbeing is used in the context of the following news items.
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Existential Questions
... is seeking for being-itself, for some vital contact with that reality which possesses the power of overcoming the existential threat of nonbeing. ”. «Chronicle of Higher Education, Jul 15»
2
The Church of Transhumanism: Let Us Upload
And I certainly understand why living longer is preferable to the alternative of permanent nonbeing. But such temporary detours and -- let's face ... «Discovery Institute, Jun 15»
3
Guantanamo prisoner details brutal treatment
... “enemy combatants”) are cast into zones of nonbeing, where they are not even recognized as human. In these lawless zones, conjecture and ... «Bend Bulletin, May 15»
4
Review: 'Guantanamo Diary' a unique look into zone of nonbeing
Near the end of his hellish account of perpetual torture, Mohamedou Ould Slahi makes what appears to be a remarkable confession. «SaukValley.com, May 15»
5
Review: 'Guantánamo Diary,' by Mohamedou Ould Slahi
... “enemy combatants”) are cast into zones of nonbeing, where they are not even recognized as human. In these lawless zones, conjecture and ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 15»
6
Weekend Reads: Dealing with reason and reasons to persevere
Did it explode out of nonbeing? If so, then it created itself, and logically it had to exist before it existed. Sproul's demolition of the theory that ... «World Magazine, Apr 15»
7
The Problem of Knowledge – Part 7: Kinds of Ideas
Examples would be: living-nonliving, good-not good, being-nonbeing, equal-unequal. Privative ideas are two ideas of which one signifies a ... «The Moral Liberal, Mar 15»
8
OPINION: Daring to be visible
... who Woodson writes about, life is a constant reminder that you are in what the Martiniquan thinker Franz Fanon calls a “zone of nonbeing”. «Eyewitness News, Mar 15»
9
Leo Tolstoy's theory of everything
By the 1850s, the theme of the being and nonbeing of time in relation to human consciousness, inaugurated by Augustine and secularized by ... «Salon, Jan 15»
10
Rundle: the legend of D.B. Cooper
... spectacular events, he faded back into nonbeing once more. In 1976, as the statute of limitations approached, the FBI had no alternative but ... «Crikey, Dec 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Nonbeing [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/nonbeing>. May 2024 ».
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