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nonerection

nonerection noun: the state or condition of not putting in erect, upright, standing up position.

Noun

nonerection (countable and uncountable, plural nonerections)

  1. The state or condition of not putting in erect, upright, standing up position.
    • The city officials decide on the erection or nonerection of traffic signs.
    • Therefore, the use of chance operations, indeterminacy, and so on, the nonerection of patterns, of either ideas or feelings on my part, in order to leave those other centers free to be the centers.2007, Diana von Finck, Oliver Scheiding, Ideas of Order in Contemporary American Poetry
  2. The condition of being not erect.
    • The penis in nonerection is entirely withdrawn into the prepuce.2012, Jamie M. Burkitt Creedon, Harold Davis, Advanced Monitoring and Procedures for Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care

Forms of nonerection

pluralnonerections

Origin of nonerection

From non- + erection.

Questions about nonerection

What does nonerection mean?
Nonerection means the state or condition of not putting in erect, upright, standing up position.
What part of speech is nonerection?
Nonerection is a noun.
What is the plural of nonerection?
The plural of nonerection is nonerections.

Words near nonerection in the dictionary

  1. nonerasing
  2. nonerasure
  3. nonerect
  4. nonerectile
  5. nonerecting
  6. nonerection
  7. nonerections
  8. nonergative
  9. nonergodic
  10. nonergodically
  11. nonergodicity

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