# `doesntContain()` The `doesntContain` method determines whether the collection does not contain a given item. You may pass a closure to the `doesntContain` method to determine if an element does not exist in the collection matching a given truth test: ```js const collection = collect([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]); collection.doesntContain(value => value < 5); // false ``` ```js const collection = collect([1, 2, 3]); collection.doesntContain(4); // true ``` You may also use `doesntContain` on object based collections: ```js const collection = collect({ name: 'Mohamed Salah', number: 11, }); collection.doesntContain('Mohamed Salah'); // false collection.doesntContain('Sadio Mané'); // true ``` You may also pass a key / value pair to the contains method, which will determine if the given pair exists in the collection: ```js const collection = collect({ name: 'Mohamed Salah', number: 11, }); collection.doesntContain('name', 'Sadio Mané'); // true ``` [View source on GitHub](https://github.com/ecrmnn/collect.js/blob/master/src/methods/doesntContain.js)