nonbinarity

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A form of non-binarity — The quality of being non-binary (not binary); absence of binarity.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounnonbinarity (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of non-binarity.

    Assimilation : optionality versus nonbinarity, and natural classes

    1992, Heinz J. Giegerich, English Phonology: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 213
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    The namer's power to authorize the pairing of word and thing underscores the nonbinarity of the sign even as it insures that pairing.

    1992, Susan Derwin, Professor Susan Derwin, The Ambivalence of Form: Lukács, Freud, and the Novel, Johns Hopkins University Press

    "Innocence" here takes the form of a nonbinarity between binarity (day and night divided by the punctual moment of sunset) and nonbinarity (the fading light in which the moment is embedded, making the boundary negotiable).

    1997, Ira Livingston, Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Postmodernity, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 2

    None of the norms of identification for sex need change much for someone who is clearly male or clearly female when they discover the nonbinarity of biological sex.

    2007, Jorge J. E. Gracia, Race Or Ethnicity?: On Black and Latino Identity

    Nonbinarity can also enter into MV-optimal GGDDs with s>1, as demonstrated next. Though neither binarity nor equal replication is required, Theorem 3.8(i) does imply binarity when p = 0.

    2015, Angela Dean, Max Morris, John Stufken, Derek Bingham, Handbook of Design and Analysis of Experiments, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 122
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