Meanings
- not comparableNot alone; with others.
Thus we could flip our last example around and compare the percentage of alone time spent in flow to the percentage of nonalone time spent in flow.
2007, Joel M. Hektner, Jennifer Anne Schmidt, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Experience Sampling Method, page 952 more examples
Nevertheless, his division of solitude allows him to take the leap from "solus," which is a good "nonalone" solitude, into a puritanical notion of loneliness, which is alone, withdrawal, retreat, or an excuse for people's possessive desires.
1999, Ester Schaler Buchholz, The Call Of Solitude: Alonetime In A World Of Attachment, page 308Dietary behavioral patterns of middle-aged and older adults can influence their different obesity metabolic phenotypes, and healthy eating behavior patterns (moderate and light taste, moderate and slightly soft texture, warm temperature, moderate and slow eating speed, daily intake of dietary supplements, and nonalone eating) are beneficial for the prevention and control of MUNO, MHO, and MUO.
2023, Fangfang Pu, Jialing Lin, Yaoyao Wei, Jingjing Li, Xinyi Liao, Lei Shi, Xianchun Zeng, Wen Hu, “Patterns of eating behavior in middle-aged and older adults impact their obesity metabolic phenotype: a cross-sectional study”, in BMC Public Health
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