No_one vs Nonexistent - What's the difference?
no_one | nonexistent | Related terms |
Not one person, nobody.
*1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
*:"The doctor was confined to the house," Poole said, "and saw no one ." On the 15th, he tried again, and was again refused; and having now been used for the last two months to see his friend almost daily, he found this return of solitude to weigh upon his spirits."
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 The logical negation of someone.
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer languageunderstood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade , or a story, no one , either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
Not existent; not real.
No_one is a related term of nonexistent.
As a pronoun no_one
is not one person, nobody.As an adjective nonexistent is
not existent; not real.no_one
English
Alternative forms
* no-one; noone;Pronoun
citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}
Usage notes
* (term) has a higher degree of formality than (nobody). * American users (COCA) use no one' 60% more than they use ''nobody''. UK users (BNC) use ''nobody'' 3 times more than they use '''no one'''. For the spoken BNC usage, mostly informal, ''nobody'' is used nearly 10 times more often than all spellings of ' no one . * American users (COCA) prefer the spelling no one to either noone'' or ''no-one by more than 500 to 1. * UK users (BNC) prefer (no one) to no-one'' 4 to 1 and no one to ''noone 50 to 1.Synonyms
* nobody, noneAntonyms
* everyonenonexistent
English
Alternative forms
* non-existentAdjective
(-)- "Hrunk" is a nonexistent word.
- His social skills are nonexistent .