nondefinition

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ definition.

Noun

nondefinition (plural nondefinitions)

1. That which is not a definition, or fails to define properly.
   • 2006, Harvey Claflin Mansfield, Manliness, page 122:

     The feminists were so assertive as to conceive, announce, and establish a new definition of woman and, somewhat incidentally, of man. The new definitions were in a sense nondefinitions — no more than possible identities — so as to help create the new gender-neutral society.