noncase
nounEtymology From non- + case.
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One who or that which is not a case (of a disease, a type of thing being explained, etc.).
- Mr. Buckey's attorney, Danny Davis, said, "The case has dragged on because it was a noncase whipped up by people who had differing ambitions that were not in the interest of this institution or the children."1989 April 23, AP, “Jurors Mark 2 Years on California Abuse Case”, in The New York Times:
- We turn next to the puzzle of borderlineness: If Harry is intermediate between clear cases and clear noncases of baldness, “Is Harry bald?” seems to have no good, direct, answer.2013, Gillian Russell, Delia Graff Fara, Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, page 144: