Noun

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The state of not being, not existing, or not being perceptible.

*{{quote-book, 1648, , Seraphic Love, edition=1997 Kessinger ed., isbn=1564590089 citation

, passage=Our inexistence indeed was a condition, wherein nothing in us was capable of being a motive of God's love; but our enmity proceeded further, and made us worthy of his detestation;

*{{quote-book, 1941, Giuseppe di Gioia, Swift are the Shadows citation

, passage=In order to prove the inexistence of God, he challenged Him to strike him down in five minutes while timing himself with a watch.}}

*{{quote-book, 2007, Jacques-Alain Miller, chapter=The Sinthome, A Mixture of Symptom and Fantasy, The Later Lacan, isbn=0791469972 citation

, passage=Axiomatics (namely, that everything that will be used for the purposes of a demonstration is explained) does nothing more than formalizing this wiping clean — in other words, inexistence is posed as the condition for necessity to emerge.}}

The state of existing in something

*{{quote-book, 1663, , chapter=A Defence of the Blessed Trinity, The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow citation

, passage=that there is a mutual inexistence of one in all, and all in one;

*{{quote-book, 1854, Christopher Walton, Notes and Materials for an Adequate Biography of the Celebrated Divine and Theosopher: William Law citation

, passage=She distinguished as to this, the inexistence in God from eternity, and the figurative manifestation in time. }}

*{{quote-book, 2005, Louis Dupre, The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture citation

, passage=Berkeley's theory of the creature's permanent inexistence in God evoked a suspicion of pantheism.}}

That which exists within; a constituent.