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nonreading en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + reading.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Not reading.

nonreading en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + reading.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The act of not reading; a failure to read.
   • Their slanted representations, and even the selective acceptance practised by scientists who were also devout Catholics, produced a variety of readings and even nonreadings of Darwin's texts which obscured the science behind the theory. 2001, Dale J. Pratt, Signs of Science, page 33:
   • Then why, he was asked, did he write a book that seems to justify nonreading? 2007 February 24, Alan Riding, “Read It? No, but You Can Skim a Few Pages and Fake It”, in New York Times:

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