What are the opposite words for being?
Being is a term that indicates existence or state of being. The antonyms of being are non-existence or non-being. Other antonyms for being include inanimate, lifeless, or dead. Being usually corresponds with the idea of life, so antonyms associated with non-life forms are relevant in expressing its opposition. A being can sometimes include intelligence or consciousness, so using antonyms like ignorant, unaware, or dull would express this opposition. There are even more abstract antonyms for being such as absence, emptiness, or nothingness. Overall, antonyms for being help to capture its opposition and contrast its meaning more vividly.
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intelligence
- mind.
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substitute
- changeling,
- locum,
- locum tenens,
- succedaneum,
- temporary expedient,
- Temps,
- Succedanea,
- temporaries,
- procurators,
- changelings,
- de legate,
- de legates,
- de-legate,
- de-legates,
- dernier ressort,
- dernier ressorts,
- fillin,
- locum tenentes,
- locums,
- pinch-hitter,
- pinchhitter,
- pinchhitters,
- pro curator,
- pro curators,
- pro-curator,
- pro-curators,
- re course,
- re courses,
- re lay,
- re lays,
- re placements,
- re presentative,
- re serve,
- re source,
- re sources,
- re-course,
- re-courses,
- re-lay,
- re-lays,
- re-placement,
- re-placements,
- re-presentative,
- re-serve,
- re-serves,
- re-sort,
- re-sorts,
- re-source,
- re-sources,
- temporary expedients,
- under studies,
- under study,
- under-studies,
- under-study.
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death
- eternal rest,
- finis,
- losses,
- necrosis,
- finises,
- After-life,
- after life,
- after lives,
- after-lives,
- de cease,
- de ceases,
- de mise,
- de mises,
- de-cease,
- de-ceases,
- de-mise,
- de-mises,
- dis solution,
- dis solutions,
- dis-solution,
- dis-solutions,
- dyings,
- eternal rests,
- ex terminations,
- ex-termination,
- ex-terminations,
- necrosises,
- passing overs,
- re lease,
- re leases,
- re pose,
- re-lease,
- re-leases,
- re-pose.
- ghost
- model
- zero
- shade
- existence
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imagination
- ideality,
- in sight,
- unreality,
- visualization,
- wittiness,
- Idealities,
- visualizations,
- insights,
- creative thought,
- creative thoughts,
- in sights,
- in-sight,
- in-sights,
- mental agilities,
- mental agility,
- re sourcefulness,
- re sourcefulnesses,
- re-sourcefulness,
- un realities,
- un reality,
- un-realities,
- un-reality,
- unrealities,
- wittinesses.
- idea
- creation
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originality
- modernity,
- unconventionality,
- creative spirit,
- creative spirits,
- in novation,
- in novations,
- in-novation,
- modernities,
- new idea,
- new ideas,
- non conformity,
- non-conformities,
- un conventionalities,
- un conventionality,
- un orthodoxies,
- un orthodoxy,
- un-conventionalities,
- un-orthodoxies,
- un-orthodoxy,
- unconventionalities,
- unorthodoxies.
-
sense
- clearheadedness,
- clear headedness,
- clear headednesses,
- clear-headedness,
- clear-headednesses,
- clearheadednesses,
- dis crimination,
- dis criminations,
- dis-crimination,
- dis-criminations,
- pre monition,
- pre monitions,
- pre sentiments,
- pre-monition,
- pre-sentiment,
- pre-sentiments,
- re cognition,
- re cognitions,
- re-cognition.
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vision
- mental picture,
- castles in the air,
- breadth of view,
- breadth view,
- castles air,
- castles in air,
- castles the air,
- fore knowledges,
- fore sight,
- fore sights,
- fore-knowledge,
- fore-knowledges,
- fore-sight,
- fore-sights,
- mental pictures,
- pie in sky,
- pie sky,
- pie the sky,
- point view,
- pre science,
- pre sciences,
- pre-science,
- pre-sciences,
- retro spects,
- retro-spect,
- retro-spects.
- apparition
- bogey
-
conception
- germination,
- impregnation,
- insemination,
- Re-presentation,
- Germinations,
- imaginings,
- cogitatings,
- communings,
- concentratings,
- considerings,
- de liberating,
- de-liberating,
- deliberatings,
- dreamings,
- envisagings,
- ex planation,
- ex planations,
- ex-planations,
- ex-position,
- ex-positions,
- fancyings,
- impregnations,
- in seminations,
- in-semination,
- in-seminations,
- inseminations,
- meditatings,
- mental grasp,
- mental grasps,
- out set,
- out sets,
- out-sets,
- philosophizings,
- re presentation,
- re presentations,
- re-presentations,
- speculatings.
- dead body
- design
- dummy
- seed
-
spirit
- umbra,
- Umbrae,
- dis position,
- dis positions,
- dis-position,
- dis-positions,
- frame mind,
- in tent,
- in tents,
- out look,
- out looks,
- out-look,
- out-looks,
- re solutions,
- re solve,
- re solves,
- re-solution,
- re-solutions,
- re-solve,
- re-solves,
- sub stance,
- sub stances,
- sub-stance,
- sub-stances,
- vital spark,
- vital sparks.
- wraith
- cadaver
- concept
- creativeness
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delusion
- deceptiveness,
- self-deception,
- Eidolon,
- deceptivenesses,
- eidola,
- eidolons,
- fool paradise,
- mis apprehensions,
- mis take,
- mis takes,
- mis-apprehension,
- mis-apprehensions,
- mis-take,
- mis-takes,
- over sight,
- over sights,
- over-sight,
- over-sights,
- self deception,
- self deceptions,
- self-deceptions,
- selfdeception,
- selfdeceptions.
- effigy
-
illusion
- paramnesia,
- Hocuspocus,
- Idolism,
- Misbelief,
- Phantasm,
- misimpression,
- figment imagination,
- hocus pocus,
- idolisms,
- ignus fatuu,
- ignus fatuus,
- makebelieve,
- mis belief,
- mis beliefs,
- mis conception,
- mis conceptions,
- mis impression,
- mis impressions,
- mis-belief,
- mis-beliefs,
- mis-conception,
- mis-conceptions,
- mis-impression,
- misbeliefs,
- misimpressions,
- paramnesias.
- mannequin
- mind
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nothing
- zero.
- notion
- soul
- state
- animate object
- understanding; idea
- development of entity
- end of life
- misconception, misbelief
- sketch, draft
- spirit of the dead
- poltergeist
- false appearance; false belief
- power to create in one's mind
- imitation, replica
- belief, idea
- ghost; figment of the imagination
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beginning, source
- seed.
- awareness, perception
- someone or something that takes the place of another
- mental image, concept
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dead
- anesthetized,
- inert,
- inoperable,
- lifeless,
- no more,
- unanimated,
- Perished,
- passed away,
- by-gone,
- pushing up daisies,
- bereft life,
- bereft of life,
- by gone,
- de parted,
- de-parted,
- gone meet maker,
- gone reward,
- gone to meet maker,
- gone to reward,
- in animate,
- in operable,
- in operative,
- in sensitive,
- in sipid,
- in-active,
- in-animate,
- in-operable,
- in-operative,
- in-sensitive,
- in-sipid,
- more anesthetized,
- more deadened,
- more erased,
- more expired,
- more inoperable,
- more liquidated,
- more mortified,
- more numbed,
- more offed,
- more perished,
- more reposing,
- more unanimated,
- most anesthetized,
- most deadened,
- most erased,
- most expired,
- most inoperable,
- most liquidated,
- most mortified,
- most numbed,
- most offed,
- most perished,
- most reposing,
- most unanimated,
- not existing,
- offed,
- out and out,
- out misery,
- out of misery,
- out of one misery,
- out of one's misery,
- out of ones misery,
- out one misery,
- out one's misery,
- out ones misery,
- out right,
- out righter,
- out rightest,
- out-right,
- out-righter,
- pushing daisies,
- re posing,
- re-posing,
- resting in peace,
- resting peace,
- un animated,
- un conditional,
- un employed,
- un feeling,
- un interesting,
- un mitigated,
- un profitable,
- un qualified,
- un responsive,
- un-animated,
- un-conditional,
- un-mitigated,
- un-qualified,
- un-responsive.
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no longer alive
- dead.
- Other relevant words
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Other antonyms
- mind.
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- Antonyms:
- in-, end-.
