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nondiscussion en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + discussion.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Discussion that is so fruitless as to be equivalent to having had no discussion.
   • Without recognition of the importance of balancing, discussions quickly deteriorate into nondiscussions; they become instead assertions by each side... 1998, Peter Horn, Clinical ethics casebook:
   • Farther up his rear end, the nondiscussion turned to environmentalism: Save the Earth! 2007 January 7, Shalom Auslander, “Love Child”, in New York Times:
   • So their discussion is tantamount to nondiscussion. This is the first reason why there is no use (in having a parliament)... 1967, Franz Schurmann, David Milton, Orville Schell, The China reader:

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