Unthing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Unthing is a noun meaning Something irrelevant or inconsequential; a non-issue; an absurdity.
Meaning
Something irrelevant or inconsequential; a non-issue; an absurdity.
Example Sentences
They made a thing of an unthing and put it on paper.
This hidden heart essence, so secret, An unthing untouched by the eterne […]
It does not follow from either the metaphor or the possibility of defining this space mathematically that it must be Leibniz's dreaded unthing “unthing” – a something that is nothing.
Whether or not PPB is an unthing in the federal bureaucracy, the budgetary concepts that are represented by it and its conceptual predecessors are still viable within OMB: control, management, and planning.
Word Forms
- unthings
Synonyms for unthing
Depending on context, synonyms include nothingburger.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include inconsequential, nothing, inanity, irrelevance, unreason, inconsequentia.
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