N. inexistence, nonexistence, nonsubsistence, # nonentity,
nil, negativeness,
nullity,
nihility,
nihilism, tabula rasa,
blank,
abeyance, absence, no such thing, nonbeing, nothingness,
oblivion,
annihilation,
extinction,
extinguishment,
extirpation,
nirvana,
obliteration V. not exist, have no existence, be null and void, cease to exist, pass away, perish, be extinct, become extinct, die out, disappear, melt away,
dissolve, leave not a rack behind, go, be no more, die,
annihilate, render null,
nullify,
abrogate, destroy, take away, remove,
obliterate,
extirpate Adj. inexistent,
nonexistent, negative,
blank, missing, omitted, absent, insubstantial,
shadowy,
spectral,
visionary, unreal, potential,
virtual, baseless, in nubibus, unsubstantial, vain, unborn, uncreated,
unbegotten, unconceived, unproduced, unmade, perished,
annihilated,
&c. v, extinct, exhausted, gone, lost,
vanished, departed, gone with the wind,
defunct,
fabulous, ideal,
supposititious Adv. negatively, virtually
Phr. non ens, 2, being, in the concrete
N. laxity,
laxness, looseness,
slackness,
toleration, freedom,
anarchy,
interregnum,
relaxation,
loosening, remission, dead letter, brutum fulmen, misrule,
license,
licentiousness,
insubordination,
lynch law,
nihilism, reign of violence,
dethronement,
deposition,
usurpation,
abdication V. be -lax, laisser faire, laisser aller, hold a loose rein, give the reins to, give rope enough, give a loose to,
tolerate,
relax, misrule, go beyond the length of one's tether, have one's swing, have one's fling, act without instructions, act without authority, act outside of one's authority, act on one's own responsibility, usurp authority,
dethrone,
depose,
abdicate Adj. lax, loose,
slack, remiss, weak,
relaxed,
licensed,
reinless,
unbridled,
anarchical, unauthorized, adespotic
N. irreligion, indevotion, # godlessness,
ungodliness,
laxity,
quietism,
skepticism, doubt, unbelief, disbelief,
incredulity,
incredulousness, want of faith, want of belief,
pyrrhonism,
bout,
agnosticism,
atheism,
deism,
hylotheism,
materialism,
positivism,
nihilism,
infidelity,
freethinking,
antichristianity,
rationalism,
neology,
atheist,
skeptic, unbeliever,
deist,
infidel,
pyrrhonist,
giaour, heathen,
alien,
gentile,
nazarene, espri fort,
freethinker,
latitudinarian,
rationalist,
materialist,
positivist,
nihilist,
agnostic,
somatist, theophobist
V. be irreligious, disbelieve, lack faith, doubt, question,
dechristianize Adj. irreligious,
indevout,
undevout,
devoutless, godless, graceless, ungodly, unholy,
unsanctified,
unhallowed,
atheistic, without god,
skeptical,
freethinking, unbelieving, unconverted,
incredulous, faithless, lacking faith,
deistical, unchristian,
antichristian, worldly,
mundane, earthly,
carnal, worldly &c. minded
