nonproof

English

Alternative forms

• non-proof

Etymology

From non- +‎ proof.

Noun

nonproof (plural nonproofs)

1. A failure to prove something; the absence of a proof

   Here is another nonproof of the existence of God.

   • 2009 January 19, Kenneth Chang, “John R. Stallings Jr., 73, California Mathematician, Is Dead”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     In his 1965 paper about his nonproof of the Poincaré Conjecture […] Dr. Stallings ended on a musing note: