nonpreservation

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ preservation.

Noun

nonpreservation (uncountable)

1. (chiefly sciences) Failure to preserve or be preserved
   • 1999 February 26, Mike Foote et al., “Evolutionary and Preservational Constraints on Origins of Biologic Groups: Divergence Times of Eutherian Mammals”, in Science‎^[1], volume 283, number 5406, →DOI, pages 1310–1314:

     We consider a hypothesis of missing diversity plausible if the probability of complete nonpreservation of the group is at least 0.5.