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nonstyle | nonstale |

As a noun nonstyle

is that which is not a style; lack of style.

As an adjective nonstale is

not stale (in various senses).

nonstyle

English

Noun

  • That which is not a style; lack of style.
  • * 1995 , Lilian R. Furst, All Is True: The Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction (page 147)
  • Despite the findings of recent critics, who have taken issue with the word, disputing its appropriateness to realism, this perception of the characteristic style of realism as a nonstyle has nevertheless been hard to dislodge.
  • * 1999 , Amelia Jones, Andrew Stephenson, Performing the body/performing the text (page 144)
  • Dada and Surrealism and other nonstyles
  • * 2002 , John Hargraves, Music in the works of Broch, Mann, and Kafka (page 52)
  • His nonstyle is painfully evident when he is less than inspired: the "Faust" overture: empty bombast; the Wesendonck-Lieder: empty sentimentality.
  • * 2008 , Montgomery Van Wart, Leadership in Public Organizations: An Introduction (page 274)
  • A laissez-faire style, characterized by passive indifference about the task and subordinates, is essentially a nonstyle .
  • * 2012 , Zarena Aslami, The Dream Life of Citizens (page 141)
  • The novel reveals its contradictory theory of representation when the narrator, describing the young Evadne's notebook, praises its style as a nonstyle

    nonstale

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not stale (in various senses).
  • * 1982 , Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Encyclia
  • Stale milk was preferred over nonstale by 68% of the panelists when used in commercial instant potatoes.
  • * 1993 , Open Software Foundation, Design of the OSF/1 operating system: release 1.2
  • This area tracks which physical volumes are online, and whether the physical extents contain valid (nonstale ) data...