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Webster 1913 Edition


Unbeing

Un-be′ing

,
Adj.
Not existing.
[Obs.]
“Beings yet unbeing.”
Sir T. Browne.

Webster 1828 Edition


Unbeing

UNBE'ING

,
Adj.
Not existing. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


unbeing

unbeing

English

Noun

unbeing (countable and uncountable, plural unbeings)

  1. (uncountable) nonexistence
    • 1997, Migene González-Wippler, What happens after death (page 3)
      What we fear most is not death itself but the prospect of not being, or rather of unbeing, a state where we altogether cease to exist. The idea of unbeing is so alien to us that we find it almost impossible to conceive.
  2. (countable) A nonbeing; an entity of no existence or significance.
    • 1987, Hari Mohan Prasad, The Dramatic Art of Eugene O'Neill (page 23)
      The house is pale as though its life-blood were sucked and the Cabots reduced to unbeings.

Adjective

unbeing (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Not in existence.
    Beings yet unbeing Sir Thomas Browne.