English Explanatory Dictionary

noncharacter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. That which is not a character (unit of text).
  2. One of 66 code points (the 32 code points U+FDD0–U+FDEF, plus the last two code points—U+...FFFE and U+...FFFF—of each of the 17 planes) which are guaranteed never to be assigned and are intended for process-internal use.
  3. That which is not a character, as in literature.
  4. A fictional character in a piece of literature or other media that lacks distinct personality traits, depth, or development.

Word forms

noncharacter noncharacters non-character

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- Ancient Greek χαράσσω (kharássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr) Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr)der. Latin charactērder. Old French caracterebor. Middle English caracter English character English noncharacter From non- + character.

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