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nondefinition en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + definition.

Meanings

  1. That which is not a definition, or fails to define properly.
    • The feminists were so assertive as to conceive, announce, and establish a new definition of woman and, somewhat incidentally, of man. The new definitions were in a sense nondefinitions — no more than possible identities — so as to help create the new gender-neutral society. 2006, Harvey Claflin Mansfield, Manliness, page 122:

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nondefinitions Number=Plur lexicographic