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nonreading

nonreading adjective: not reading.

Adjective

nonreading (not comparable)

  1. Not reading.

Noun

nonreading (usually uncountable, plural nonreadings)

  1. (usually) The act of not reading; a failure to read.
    • Their slanted representations, and even the selective acceptance practised by scientists who were also devout Catholics, produced a variety of readings and even nonreadings of Darwin's texts which obscured the science behind the theory.2001, Dale J. Pratt, Signs of Science, page 33
    • Then why, he was asked, did he write a book that seems to justify nonreading?2007 February 24, Alan Riding, “Read It? No, but You Can Skim a Few Pages and Fake It”, in New York Times

Forms of nonreading

pluralnonreadings
alternative formnon-reading

Origin of nonreading

From non- + reading.

Questions about nonreading

What does nonreading mean?
Nonreading means not reading.
What part of speech is nonreading?
Nonreading can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nonreading in the dictionary

  1. nonreactors
  2. nonreadability
  3. nonreadable
  4. nonreader
  5. nonreaders
  6. nonreading
  7. nonreadings
  8. nonreaginic
  9. nonreal
  10. nonrealism
  11. nonrealist

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