Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nondiscursive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: nondis-cur-sive
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not discursive.

Example Sentences

"This viewpoint is especially relevant to the interpretation of such things as the dance, music, religious ritual, and the representative arts. In all of these, one person can enter into a significant relationship with another by means of a nondiscursive sign system. Using a pharmaceutical analogy, it is as if the language—dance, art, etc.—were the vehicle in which the active ingredient—human contact—is suspended and contained."

Etymology

From non- + discursive.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: non

Rhymes With

immersive subversive recursive cursive roman cursive tail recursive primitive recursive discursive dispersive aversive inversive abstersive

Questions

What does nondiscursive mean?: Not discursive.
Where does nondiscursive come from?: From non- + discursive.

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