nonerection

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English

Etymology

From non- +‎ erection.

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.
    • 2007, Diana von Finck, Oliver Scheiding, Ideas of Order in Contemporary American Poetry:
      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.
  2. (of a penis) The condition of being not erect.
    • 2012, Jamie M. Burkitt Creedon, Harold Davis, Advanced Monitoring and Procedures for Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care:
      The penis in nonerection is entirely withdrawn into the prepuce.