Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Nonexistence

Nonexistence , noun

1.
The state of not existing; absence of existence; the negation of being; -- usually used with reference to existence in the real world, or logical possibility; as, the nonexistence of vaporware does not go unnoticed long. — A. Baxter
2.
A thing that has no existence. — Sir T. Browne