Meanings
- not comparableNot afflicted; unafflicted.
INC assumes that the functional or nonafflicted partner is in some way dependent on the relationship with the afflicted partner.
2022, Laura K. Guerrero, Bree McEwan, Interpersonal Encounters: Connecting Through Communication2 more examples
In intervals between afflicted ones, there are nonafflicted ones; in intervals between nonafflicted ones are located afflicted ones.
1998, Ian Whicher, The Integrity of the Yoga Darśana, page 127Yet because nonafflicted households are likely to be indirectly affected by the mortality occurring around them, nonafflicted households may not be a valid control group.
2006, Stuart R. Gillespie, AIDS, Poverty, and Hunger: Challenges and Responses, page 156
Origin
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