Apr 2, 2015 · BrE: Non-existent used to be British spelling, but a couple of years back they did away with the hyphens of 16,000 hyphenated words. AmE: the answer above is the valid …

Note also that most North American publishers use a hyphen after non only when it precedes a capital letter, so non-British and non-European, but nonbeliever and even nonnative. British …

Oxford Dictionaries has an entry for "non-existing", defined as "non-existent". But "nonexisting" and "non-existing" are both absent from some other major online dictionaries such as Merriam …

Oct 1, 2015 · Not is a negative adverb; no is a negative quantifier; non- is a negative prefix. Since negation is so important, thousands of idioms use each of these, among other negatives. …

Jan 27, 2013 · IF you are going to add the follow-on sentence it should be "It refers to a non-existent day." but I think your first sentence is fine all by itself. – Jim Commented Jan 26, 2013 …

Aug 31, 2012 · What are other ways of saying "virtually impossible"? The connotation of pretty much any adverb applied to "impossible" is that there is a known circumstance or set of events …

Many words can be used before nonsense that result in the same effective meaning: utter, sheer, total, complete, absolute The difference between sheer and utter is that sheer means pure, …

Aug 17, 2011 · Some people do have an informal contraction this’s, with a much reduced or non-existent vowel in the second syllable, contrasting with a more formal this is with a full vowel in …

May 24, 2016 · But it's something nebulous, hard to catch, and ultimately pointless to do so. So has perhaps a slightly different meaning to 'chasing something that doesn't exist' - smoke …

Sep 30, 2017 · A word which does not literally refer directly to the vanished objects but can work in the example phrase by metonymy is memories.