noncharacter
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
That which is not a character, as in literature.
noun
A fictional character in a piece of literature or other media that lacks distinct personality traits, depth, or development.
Example Sentences
- "Like the noncharacter at the center of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the screen's nonimage and the man it effaces enable other forms of repression, […]"
- "She’s a non-character hyped up to sell merchandise."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- Ancient Greek χαράσσω (kharássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Hellenic *-tḗr Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr) Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr)der. Latin charactērder. Old French caracterebor. Middle English caracter English character English noncharacter From non- + character.