Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not symbolic

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word nonsymbolic.

Examples

  • I have not stated that prebiotic change could not take place or that there was no fitness landscape regarding nonsymbolic considerations.

    Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

  • Benmarnia is intent on making the Muslim presence in France normal, regular, nonsymbolic.

    The Crescent and the Tricolor 2000

  • Benmarnia is intent on making the Muslim presence in France normal, regular, nonsymbolic.

    The Crescent and the Tricolor 2000

  • The former kind of utterance is indeed instinctive, but it is nonsymbolic; in other words, the sound of pain or the sound of joy does not, as such, indicate the emotion, it does not stand aloof, as it were, and announce that such and such an emotion is being felt.

    Chapter 1. Introductory: Language Defined 1921

  • In a column headlined "Paranoid About Paranoia," Ross Douthat suggests that obsessing about the paranoia of the masses is often a way for American elites to gloss over their own, entirely nonsymbolic failures.

    Reason Magazine 2010

  • In a column headlined "Paranoid About Paranoia," Ross Douthat suggests that obsessing about the paranoia of the masses is often a way for American elites to gloss over their own, entirely nonsymbolic failures.

    Reason Magazine 2010

  • And knowing that power well, I can say that it is certainly comparable to the reading of a sensitive short story as far as comfort goes; and yet both fall far below the direct aid that is being passed from person to person, below Chambers Street, in our homes, on the phone with strangers, with an actual touch, in the actual, nonsymbolic, unannotated world of grief in which we live.

    McSweeney's 2010

  • "What this suggests to me," she added, "is that the people whom we think of as being the most involved in the symbolic part of math intuitively know that they have to practice those other, nonsymbolic, approximating skills."

    Alanat News 2008

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.