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nonarchitecture

nonarchitecture noun: that which is not architecture.

Noun

nonarchitecture (uncountable)

  1. That which is not architecture.
    • What about the student with a nonarchitecture degree who wants to study architecture?1971, William Wayne Caudill, Architecture by team
    • Its demise economically as an institution was perhaps inevitable, but its replacement — let's say "with needed functions" — was made with banality, not minimal architecture but nonarchitecture.1987, Norval White, New York: a physical history

Origin of nonarchitecture

From non- + architecture.

Questions about nonarchitecture

What does nonarchitecture mean?
Nonarchitecture means that which is not architecture.
What part of speech is nonarchitecture?
Nonarchitecture is a noun.

Words near nonarchitecture in the dictionary

  1. nonarchetypical
  2. nonarchimedean
  3. nonarchitect
  4. nonarchitects
  5. nonarchitectural
  6. nonarchitecture
  7. nonarchival
  8. nonarchived
  9. nonarcing
  10. nonargentiferous
  11. nonargument

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