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nonplaces

nonplaces is the plural of nonplace.

Meaning of nonplace

Noun

nonplace (plural nonplaces)

  1. An anthropological space of transience where human beings remain anonymous, such as an airport or shopping mall.
    • Marc Auge identifies the nonplace as both a symptom and product of supermodernity. Auge's designation of the nonplace is neither prescriptive nor apocalyptic, realizing that the differential relation between place and nonplace is never absolute. The proliferation of nonplaces, however, is directly...2000, Erika Suderburg, Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 205
  2. That which is not a place but has some aspects of one, such as cyberspace.

Questions about nonplaces

What is nonplaces the plural of?
Nonplaces is the plural of nonplace.

Words near nonplaces in the dictionary

  1. nonplacebo
  2. nonplacebos
  3. nonplaced
  4. nonplacement
  5. nonplacental
  6. nonplaces
  7. nonplagiarized
  8. nonplague
  9. nonplaintiff
  10. nonplaintiffs
  11. nonplan

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