non-binarity

See also: nonbinarity

English

Alternative forms

• nonbinarity

Etymology

non-binary +‎ -ity or non- +‎ binarity

Noun

non-binarity (uncountable)

1. The quality of being non-binary (not binary); absence of binarity.

   Synonym: non-binariness

   • 1975, General Linguistics:

     Beyond Ladefoged's arguments for non-binarity (1970), I feel that the human nervous system is not constructed in a way that it could use binarity easily, either in perception or production.

   • 1990, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology, Plume:

     Through his use of ellipsis, understatement, unspecified agency, and non-binarity, Johnson is thus attempting to bring about a change in the status of the Negro without explicitly acknowledging or processing conflict and dispossession.

   • 1998, Claus Fröhlich, M. Huber, S.K. Solanki, Rudolf von Steiger, Solar Composition and its Evolution — from Core to Corona: Proceedings of an Issi Workshop 26-30 January 1998, Bern, Switzerland, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 419:

     As regards its particular mass and age, and probably its non-binarity, "anthropic" explanations may seem in place. The possible tendency for the Sun, as compared with similar stars, to be somewhat rich in iron relative to other elements  […]

   • 2003, Josep Quer i Carbonell, Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001: Selected Papers from 'Going Romance,' Amsterdam, 6-8 December 2001, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 32:

     On the non-binarity of the null subject parameter

   • 2019, I. M. Roca, Logical Issues in Language Acquisition, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 13:

     Nor can we maintain the converse position that a defining property of parameters is non-binarity, as there appear to be some, most notably the directionality parameters, which by their very nature are binary.