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unrepresentation

unrepresentation noun: absence of representation.

Noun

unrepresentation (uncountable)

  1. Absence of representation.
    • Unrepresentation, the selection of information in order not to reveal important and relevant facts to the reader, would be another factor. Absences and silences can misinform readers just as effectively as more obvious devices.2007, Ian Eyres, English for Primary and Early Years, page 188
    • […] the unrepresentation of everything. Such pictures of nothing, or of nothingness, although certainly worthy of careful consideration, are not the subject of this book.2025, Robert Couzin, Unrepresented: the Suppression of Images in the Middle Ages, page 5

Origin of unrepresentation

un- + representation

Questions about unrepresentation

What does unrepresentation mean?
Unrepresentation means absence of representation.
What part of speech is unrepresentation?
Unrepresentation is a noun.

Words near unrepresentation in the dictionary

  1. unreprehended
  2. unreprehensible
  3. unrepresent
  4. unrepresentability
  5. unrepresentable
  6. unrepresentation
  7. unrepresentative
  8. unrepresentative swill
  9. unrepresentatively
  10. unrepresentativeness
  11. unrepresented

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