Bill Browder

Russia is really a sort of a nonentity when it comes to - the economy is the size of the state of New York. Their military budget is 5 percent of the U.S. military budget. We shouldn't even be thinking about Russia other than the fact that they're sort of putting their nose into every bit of terrible activity all over the world.

American Activist

Josh Widdicombe

I wasn't into making classmates laugh - or any of the comedy cliches. I wanted to disappear. I was a nonentity. I wasn't too clever but I wasn't in the bottom group. I wasn't loud but I wasn't quiet. I wasn't a bully and I wasn't bullied.

English Comedian

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

American Philosopher

Tucker Max

My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I got to be about 16 or so. My mom was a flight attendant for PanAm, so I moved all over the world. London, Rio de Janeiro.

American Author

Ian Hacking

Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.

Canadian Philosopher

Charles Bock

I never ran away, but I was very unhappy as a teenager. I felt like a complete nonentity, and I very tangibly have memories of not wanting to be here - in my body.

American Writer

Barbara Stanwyck

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

American Actress

Can imply someone feels insignificant or overlooked, affecting their self-esteem.

Self-Esteem Impact

It's a subtle way to express that someone is unimportant; can be a polite insult.

Subtlety in Insult

Often used to describe a contrast between someone's perception and reality.

Contrasting Significance

Emphasizes that something is entirely imaginary or hypothetical.

Nonexistence

Useful for discussing ideas or concepts that have no physical reality.

Abstract Concepts

Provides clear dismissal of concepts not based on empirical evidence.

Nonentity