A nonaqueous electrolytic solution that provides a lithium secondary battery with excellent electrical capacity, cycling properties, storage properties and other battery characteristics and that maintains the battery characteristics for a long time; and a lithium secondary battery comprising it. A nonaqueous electrolytic solution comprising an electrolytic salt dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent, containing 0.1 to 10% by weight of an ethylene carbonate derivative represented by the general formula (I), and 0.01 to 10% by weight of (A) a triple bond-containing compound and/or (B) a pentafluorophenyloxy compound represented by the general formula (X), wherein formula (I) is: wherein R1 to R3 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group or an aryl group, provided that ethylene carbonate is excluded from the definition of the ethylene carbonate derivative; and wherein formula (X) is: wherein R15 represents an alkylcarbonyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group or an alkanesulfonyl group.