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noncatlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + catlike.

Meanings

1. Not catlike
   • Anna held the cat for a long time. The cat clung to her and then fell asleep against her chest—a deep, noncatlike sleep of relief and exhaustion. 2001, Denise Little, editor, A Constellation of Cats, New York, NY: DAW Books, page 74:
   • [...] so we'll go look out the window to see what's up and let her in (through the window), and the look on her face and her eyes is so...noncatlike... 2001 February 9, Takenthra, “[Rant] Am I a dragon?(Warning: VERY long)”, in alt.fan.dragons (Usenet):
   • So although we can identify patterns that behave like cats in the wave function, there are also patterns that initially behave like cats, but later start behaving in distinctly noncatlike ways, for example, by spontaneously becoming a gas. 2016, Peter J. Lewis, Quantum Ontology: A Guide to the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, page 68:

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