nondefinition
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
non- + definition
Noun[edit]
nondefinition (plural nondefinitions)
- That which is not a definition, or fails to define properly.
- 2006, Harvey Claflin Mansfield, Manliness, page 122:
- 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.