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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

beingless en · ADJ

Etymology

From being + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Devoid of being; nonexistent.
    • Having recognized his individuality, his subjectivity, having been in relationship with him, I could not render him beingless. 1995, Carol J Adams, Neither man nor beast: feminism and the defense of animals:
  2. (not-comparable) Devoid of living beings; uninhabited.
    • For that is all there is: material atoms moving mindlessly in the beingless void of space. 1996, Robert Cecil Olby, Companion to the history of modern science:

Deriveds

beinglessness

Synonyms

untenanted · inhabited · vacant · wasteful · nonexistent · deserted · beingless · zilch · extinct · inexistent · unpopulated · desert · peopleless · beingless · null · tenantless · howling · absent · inhabitantless · inexistent · unoccupied · disinhabited · inessential · desolate · uninhabited · unpeopled · lifeless · solitary · peopleless · deserted · unhabited