inexistence

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)The state of not being, not existing, or not being perceptible.

   “Our inexistence indeed was a condition, wherein nothing in us was capable of being a motive of God's love; but our enmity proceeded further, and made us worthy of his detestation; […]”

   “In order to prove the inexistence of God, he challenged Him to strike him down in five minutes while timing himself with a watch.”

   “Axiomatics (namely, that everything that will be used for the purposes of a demonstration is explained) does nothing more than formalizing this wiping clean — in other words, inexistence is posed as the condition for necessity to emerge.”

2. (uncountable, usually)The state of existing in something

   “that there is a mutual inexistence of one in all, and all in one; […]”

   “She distinguished as to this, the inexistence in God from eternity, and the figurative manifestation in time.”

   “Berkeley's theory of the creature's permanent inexistence in God evoked a suspicion of pantheism.”

3. (uncountable, usually)That which exists within; a constituent.

   “1768-1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued where could they find such receptacle for their inexistence”