nondiscussion

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noun

Discussion that is so fruitless as to be equivalent to having had no discussion.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounnondiscussion (countable and uncountable, plural nondiscussions)

plural nondiscussions

  1. countableuncountableDiscussion that is so fruitless as to be equivalent to having had no discussion.

    Farther up his rear end, the nondiscussion turned to environmentalism: Save the Earth!

    2007 January 7, Shalom Auslander, “Love Child”, in New York Times
    2 more examples

    So their discussion is tantamount to nondiscussion. This is the first reason why there is no use (in having a parliament)...

    1967, Franz Schurmann, David Milton, Orville Schell, The China reader

    Without recognition of the importance of balancing, discussions quickly deteriorate into nondiscussions; they become instead assertions by each side...

    1998, Peter Horn, Clinical ethics casebook

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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