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non-binarity

noun

Etymology

From non-binary + -ity or non- + binarity.

  1. derived from bīnī
  2. derived from bīnārius
  3. formed as non-binary — “non- + binary”
  4. formed as non-binarity — “non-binary + -ity”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being non-binary (not binary)

    The quality of being non-binary (not binary); absence of binarity.

    • Beyond Ladefoged's arguments for non-binarity (1970), I feel that the human nervous system is not constructed in a way that it could use binarity easily, either in perception or production.
    • Through his use of ellipsis, understatement, unspecified agency, and non-binarity, Johnson is thus attempting to bring about a change in the status of the Negro without explicitly acknowledging or processing conflict and dispossession.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for non-binarity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA