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Nondefective vs Nondetective - What's the difference?

nondefective | nondetective |

As adjectives the difference between nondefective and nondetective

is that nondefective is not defective while nondetective is not involving a detective (as many mystery novels do).

nondefective

English

Adjective

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  • not defective

    • nondetective

    English

    Adjective

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  • (literature) Not involving a detective (as many mystery novels do).
  • * 2000 , David Lehman, The perfect murder: a study in detection
    • The closest character to Dupin in Poe's nondetective fiction is Roderick Usher in "The Fall of the House of Usher," that gothic nightmare of decadence...