nonsentence

noun

Etymology

From non- + sentence.

  1. derived from *sent-
  2. derived from sententia
  3. borrowed from sentence
  4. prefixed as nonsentence — “non + sentence

Definitions

  1. An utterance that is not a sentence.

    • Those strings in the language are called sentences; the strings not in the language are called nonsentences.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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