beinglessadj.
/ˈbiːɪŋlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈbiɪŋlᵻs/ That has no being, non-existent.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adjective]
pretended1489
Oudemian streeta1586
not-being1594
unbeing1607
inexistent1646
non-existent1646
insubsistent1654
unented1657
unexistenta1682
non-existing1743
null1762
unexisting1785
nullibiquitous1820
non-entitous1831
beingless1835
non-entitive1872
non-entitative1889
nil1937
1835 J. Galt Contrib. Greenock Calamity Fund 16 Ah! baseless wishes, householdry of dreams, Vague thrift of sleep—as beingless as sound!
1849 S. Coleridge tr. F. W. J. Schelling in S. T. Coleridge Notes & Lect. upon Shakespeare (2004) II. xiii. 365 (notes) The..perception, which proclaims, that the idea is that alone which lives..in Things:—that all else is beingless and empty shadow.
1864 C. W. King Gnostics 38 When first the Father, the Inconceivable, Beingless, Sexless, began to be in labour.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 232 The whirr of flapping leathern bands and hum of dynamos from the powerhouse urged Stephen to be on. Beingless beings.
1994 M. North Dial. Modernism (1998) vi. 137 He has finally lost the beingless and thoughtless state in which he began the story, and she..kisses his feet.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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