Meanings
- not comparableNot reading.
plural nonreadings · alternative non-reading
- uncountableusuallyThe act of not reading; a failure to read.
Then why, he was asked, did he write a book that seems to justify nonreading?
2007 February 24, Alan Riding, “Read It? No, but You Can Skim a Few Pages and Fake It”, in New York Times1 more example
Their slanted representations, and even the selective acceptance practised by scientists who were also devout Catholics, produced a variety of readings and even nonreadings of Darwin's texts which obscured the science behind the theory.
2001, Dale J. Pratt, Signs of Science, page 33
Origin
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