Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nonreferring

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: non-re-fer-ring
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Example Sentences

"In particular, Frege held as a special case of the Compositionality of Reference that a compound expression having a nonreferring part (as for example, 'the wife of the present king of France') must itself be nonreferring."

Etymology

From non- + referring.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: non

Questions

What does nonreferring mean?: Not referring.
Where does nonreferring come from?: From non- + referring.

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