nonreading

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adjective

Not reading.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectivenonreading (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot reading.
nounnonreading (usually uncountable, plural nonreadings)

plural nonreadings · alternative non-reading

  1. 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 Times
    1 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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APA

nonreading. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonreading

MLA

“nonreading.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonreading. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonreading,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonreading.

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