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s | inexistence |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun inexistence is

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

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    inexistence

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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.

    • Usage notes

    *In modern philosophical writing, this is chiefly used with the sense "nonexistence" as a literal translation or calque of a corresponding term in another European language, such as the German .

    Synonyms

    *(not existing) nonexistence, absence, lack *(existing within) inherence

    Related terms

    *inexistent English contranyms ----