nonerection

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noun

The state or condition of not putting in erect, upright, standing up position.

“The city officials decide on the erection or nonerection of traffic signs.”

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Meanings

nounnonerection (countable and uncountable, plural nonerections)

plural nonerections

  1. countableuncountableThe state or condition of not putting in erect, upright, standing up position.

    The city officials decide on the erection or nonerection of traffic signs.

    1 more example

    Therefore, the use of chance operations, indeterminacy, and so on, the nonerection of patterns, of either ideas or feelings on my part, in order to leave those other centers free to be the centers.

    2007, Diana von Finck, Oliver Scheiding, Ideas of Order in Contemporary American Poetry
  2. countableuncountableThe condition of being not erect.

    The penis in nonerection is entirely withdrawn into the prepuce.

    2012, Jamie M. Burkitt Creedon, Harold Davis, Advanced Monitoring and Procedures for Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care

Origin

From non- + erection.

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APA

nonerection. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonerection

MLA

“nonerection.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonerection. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonerection,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonerection.

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