nonreferring

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ referring.

Adjective

nonreferring (not comparable)

1. Not referring.
   • 2003, Dov M. Gabbay, Franz Guenthner, Handbook of Philosophical Logic, volume 10, page 67:

     In particular, Frege held as a special case of the Compositionality of Reference that a compound expression having a nonreferring part (as for example, 'the wife of the present king of France') must itself be nonreferring.