Meanings
nounnonequation (uncountable)
- uncountableAbsence of equation; not equating things.
In this sense, the literary text saves the earth by disclosing the nonequation of word and thing, poem and place.
Quoted in 2013, Anat Pick, Guinevere Narraway, Screening Nature: Cinema beyond the Human (page 220)1 more example
It was in this way that the times of arabicization became involved in the issue of faith and works, of the equation — or nonequation — of the divine will and the human will […]
1991, Kenneth Cragg, The Arab Christian: A History in the Middle East, page 66
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