Complete absence of
Not any is an emphatic way of saying none or no.
It strengthens a negative statement: There's not any milk left, I don't have any idea what you mean.
The phrase often appears where *no* alone would suffice, but *not any* adds slight emphasis or fits more naturally in certain constructions, especially with *do* or *have*.
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Complete absence of
Not any is an emphatic way of saying none or no.
It strengthens a negative statement: There's not any milk left, I don't have any idea what you mean.
The phrase often appears where *no* alone would suffice, but *not any* adds slight emphasis or fits more naturally in certain constructions, especially with *do* or *have*.
Related — zero (Numerical absence of quantity); nil (Nothing whatsoever); nope (Casual negative reply); neither · nowhere · without a trace · nobody · empty · void · lack · absent · without · at all
QUANTITY/EXISTENCEnot any ≠ some Indefinite quantity; at least one · any · a few · several · many
SCOPE/EXTENTnot any ≠ all The complete quantity; every · all of · each · the whole · everything
not, any, no, none, nothing, naught, nought, anything, anyone
Word data: Linguabase (CC0) · www.idea.org/words/not_any