nonreading

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English

Etymology

From non- +‎ reading.

Adjective

nonreading (not comparable)

  1. Not reading.

Noun

nonreading (usually uncountable, plural nonreadings)

  1. The act of not reading; a failure to read.
    • 2001, Dale J. Pratt, Signs of Science, page 33:
      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.
    • 2007 February 24, Alan Riding, “Read It? No, but You Can Skim a Few Pages and Fake It”, in New York Times:
      Then why, he was asked, did he write a book that seems to justify nonreading?

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