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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

nonindividuated en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + individuated.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not individuated; treated as a mass or unit.
    • Clearly, there is nothing intrinsically important about hippos; in fact most grounding-related hierarchies would predict nonhuman, nonindividuated participants to be less newsworthy and therefore less foregroundable than individuated human participants. 1990, Suzanne Fleischman, Tense and Narrativity: From Medieval Performance to Modern Fiction, page 181: