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- adjective Not
novel ;unoriginal ,existing . - noun rare A literary work other than a novel.
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non- + novel
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We don't want nonnovel and obvious patents for reasons very similar to not wanting nonnovel and obvious science publications.
Revisiting the Presumption of Validity Peter Zura 2009
MR2009 commented on the word nonnovel
See Florentin Smarandache's vanguard novel called just "NonNovel" at
www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/NonNovel.pdf .
Sentences are negated, taken in counter-sense as in his paradoxism movement.
Example: "you write the novel of our life, the non-novel or our non-life, a novel of the possibility of a world to be impossible".
August 22, 2010