nonproof

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English

Alternative forms

  • non-proof

Etymology

From non- +‎ proof.

Noun

nonproof (plural nonproofs)

  1. A failure to prove something; the absence of a proof
    Here is another nonproof of the existence of God.
    • 2009 January 19, Kenneth Chang, “John R. Stallings Jr., 73, California Mathematician, Is Dead”, in New York Times:
      In his 1965 paper about his nonproof of the Poincaré Conjecture Dr. Stallings ended on a musing note: