different between None vs nonexistent

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English none, noon, non (“not one”), from Old English n?n (“not one, not any, none”), from ne (“not”) + ?n (“one”). (Regarding the different phonological development of only and one, see the note in one.) Cognate with Scots nane (“none”), Saterland Frisian naan, neen (“no, not any, none”), West Frisian neen & gjin (“no, none”), Dutch neen & geen (“no, none”), Low German n?n, neen (“none, no one”), German nein & kein (“no, none”), Latin n?n (“not”).

Alternative forms

• non [11th-17th c.]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?n/, /n?n/
• Homophones: nun, non-

Pronoun

none

1. Not any of a given number or group.
   1. No one, nobody.

   2. No person.
      • 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, page 253:

        Alas, none of these people were writing the reviews.

Usage notes

None used to replace uncountable nouns should always be singular. None used in place of countable nouns may be either singular or plural, unless the rest of the circumstances or phrasing require it to be one or the other.

Antonyms

• some
• all

Derived terms

• half a loaf is better than none

Translations

Determiner

none

1. (archaic outside Scotland, West Country) Not any; no (usually used only before a vowel or h):

   Thou shalt have none other gods but me.

   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXV:

     the foles toke their lampes, but toke none oyle with them.

   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 138:

     None lasses were in the dunces' row. If one had been there people would have looked at her and felt sorry but not boys.

Adverb

none (not comparable)

2. To no extent, in no way. [from 11th c.]

3. Not at all, not very. [from 13th c.]

4. (obsolete) No, not. [14th-16th c.]
   • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Shipman's Tale", The Canterbury Tales:

     And up into his contour-hous gooth he / To rekene with hymself, wel may be, / Of thilke yeer how that it with hym stood, / And how that he despended hadde his good, / And if that he encresses were or noon.

Translations

Etymology 2

From the first sense, since they respond “none” when asked about their religion; also a play of words on nun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?n/, /n?n/
• Homophones: nun, non-

Noun

none (plural nones)

1. (chiefly American) A person without religious affiliation.

Etymology 3

From French none, from Latin n?na (“ninth; ninth hour”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /no?n/
• Homophone: known

Noun

none (plural nones)

1. Alternative form of nones: the ninth hour after dawn; (Christian) the religious service appointed to this hour.
2. (obsolete) Synonym of midafternoon: the time around or following noon or nones.
   • 1706, D. Cotes translating L.E. Dupin as A New Ecclesiastical History of the 16th Century. Vol. II, Chapter v, 43:

     The last, which began at the middle of the Afternoon, i.e. at half the Time between Noon and Sun-setting, was called None, because it began at the Ninth Hour.

References

Anagrams

• neon

Dutch

Alternative forms

• noon

Pronunciation

Noun

none m (plural nonen, diminutive noontje n)

1. (music) An interval of 13 (kleine none) of 14 (grote none) halftones.

Anagrams

• neon

Friulian

Etymology

Feminine of nono. Compare Italian nonna, Venetian nona.

Noun

none f (plural nonis)

1. grandmother

   Synonym: ave

Related terms

• nono

Interlingua

Adjective

none

1. ninth

Italian

Adjective

none

1. feminine plural of nono

Noun

none f pl

1. plural of nona

Anagrams

• neon

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?no?.ne/, [?no?n?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?no.ne/, [?n??n?]

Numeral

n?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of n?nus

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French nonne.

Noun

none (plural nones)

1. Alternative form of nonne

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman noun.

Noun

none

1. Alternative form of noun

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin n?nus.

Noun

none m (definite singular nonen, indefinite plural noner, definite plural nonene)

1. (music) An interval of 13 (liten none) or 14 (stor none) halftones.

Inflection

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin n?nus.

Noun

none m (definite singular nonen, indefinite plural nonar, definite plural nonane)

1. (music) An interval of 13 (liten none) or 14 (stor none) halftones.

Inflection

Old French

Etymology 1

Latin n?na.

Noun

none f (oblique plural nones, nominative singular none, nominative plural nones)

1. (originally) noon; the ninth hour of the day, equivalent to about 3pm by modern standards
2. noon; midday (12pm)

Etymology 2

Latin nonna.

Noun

none f

1. nominative singular of nonain

Tarantino

Adjective

none

1. ninth

Adverb

none

1. no

See also

• sìne

Venetian

Noun

none

1. plural of nona

English

Alternative forms

• non-existent

Etymology

From non- +? existent.

Adjective

nonexistent (not comparable)

1. Not existent; not real.

   Synonyms: inexistent; see also Thesaurus:inexistent

   • 1994, William Martin Hunt, Decennial Census: 1995 Test Census Presents Opportunities to Evaluate New Census-Taking Methods, US General Accounting Office, page 4,

     In the 1995 Test Census, the Bureau plans to test the use of Postal Service letter carriers to identify vacant and nonexistent units when it mails census questionnaires.

   • 1996, Dale Jacquette, Meinongian Logic: The Semantics of Existence and Nonexistence, Walter de Gruyter, page 7,

     If there is anything of philosophical significance to be taken at face value in ordinary thought and language it is the reference and attribution of properties to existent and nonexistent objects.

   • 2015, Jonathan Gold, Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy, Columbia University Press, 2016, Paperback, page 275,

     Conversely, to return to the point at hand, nonexistent entities can be known, even by a Buddha, without being, thereby, substantial.

Related terms

• nonexistence
• nonexistential

Translations

Further reading

• Existence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia