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# nonentity

«nonentity» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Something that does not exist, or a thing of no importance** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Something that does not exist, or a thing of no importance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/nonentity/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah is read as teaching that God made the world out of nothing, so what exists came from what was not.

### examples

- He created a reality out of nothing, called the nonentity into existence and hewed, as it were, colossal pillars from intangible air. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/nonentity/#x1)
- 1) Our author maintains that there is a first intelligent, self-existing, almighty, eternal ruling cause of all things, and that an everlasting entity produced nonentities by a progression of effects. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/nonentity/#x2)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nonentity» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/nonentity/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.