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nonthesis

nonthesis adjective: not being or relating to a thesis.

Adjective

nonthesis (not comparable)

  1. Not being or relating to a thesis.

Noun

nonthesis (plural nontheses)

  1. Something that is posited in order to be disproved.
    • ...or theses, and non-derivable propositions, non-theses, while also assigning an operator to relate the two, since the negation of a non-thesis should give us a derivable thesis.2021, Gabriel Tupinambá, The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Thinking
    • we can do both: prove theses and extract falsifying models for non-theses on the basis of unsuccessful derivations.2010, Andrzej Indrzejczak, Natural Deduction, Hybrid Systems and Modal Logics, Page 98

Forms of nonthesis

pluralnontheses

Origin of nonthesis

From non- + thesis.

Questions about nonthesis

What does nonthesis mean?
Nonthesis means not being or relating to a thesis.
What part of speech is nonthesis?
Nonthesis can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nonthesis in the dictionary

  1. nonthermionic
  2. nonthermonuclear
  3. nonthermophile
  4. nonthermophiles
  5. nonthermophilic
  6. nonthesis
  7. nonthespian
  8. nonthespians
  9. nonthetic
  10. nonthickened
  11. nonthickening

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