nondiscussion
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]non- + discussion
Noun
[edit]nondiscussion (countable and uncountable, plural nondiscussions)
- Discussion that is so fruitless as to be equivalent to having had no discussion.
- 1967, Franz Schurmann, David Milton, Orville Schell, The China reader:
- So their discussion is tantamount to nondiscussion. This is the first reason why there is no use (in having a parliament)...
- 1998, Peter Horn, Clinical ethics casebook:
- Without recognition of the importance of balancing, discussions quickly deteriorate into nondiscussions; they become instead assertions by each side...
- 2007 January 7, Shalom Auslander, “Love Child”, in New York Times[1]:
- Farther up his rear end, the nondiscussion turned to environmentalism: Save the Earth!