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non-character

non-character is the alternative form of noncharacter.

Meaning of noncharacter

Noun

noncharacter (plural noncharacters)

  1. That which is not a character (unit of text).
    1. (Unicode) One of 66 code points (the 32 code points U+FDD0–U+FDEF, plus the last two code points—U+...FFFE and U+...FFFF—of each of the 17 planes) which are guaranteed never to be assigned and are intended for process-internal use.
  2. That which is not a character, as in literature.
    • Like the noncharacter at the center of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the screen's nonimage and the man it effaces enable other forms of repression, […]2009, Marc Robinson, The American Play: 1787-2000, page 325
  3. A fictional character in a piece of literature or other media that lacks distinct personality traits, depth, or development.
    • She’s a non-character hyped up to sell merchandise.2023 February 14, penguintruth, “Asking out of geniuine curiosity: Do you really like Mari? Why?”, in reddit.com/r/evangelion

Forms of non-character

pluralnon-characters

Questions about non-character

What is non-character the alternative form of?
Non-character is the alternative form of noncharacter.

Words near non-character in the dictionary

  1. non-causalities
  2. non-causality
  3. non-cavitating
  4. non-certified
  5. non-chametz
  6. non-character
  7. non-choice
  8. non-choices
  9. non-Christian
  10. non-Christians
  11. non-chronological

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Adapted from Wiktionary: non-character (page history and authors); noncharacter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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