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Nonstate vs Nonstale - What's the difference?

nonstate | nonstale |

As adjectives the difference between nonstate and nonstale

is that nonstate is not constituting or belonging to a state; not characterised by the institutional power or authority of an organized government while nonstale is not stale (in various senses).

As a noun nonstate

is a sociopolitical entity other than a state.

nonstate

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Not constituting or belonging to a state; not characterised by the institutional power or authority of an organized government.
  • * 2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, page 49:
    • The nonstate peoples we are most familiar with are the hunters and gatherers living in small bands like the ?Kung San of the Kalahari Desert and the Inuit of the Arctic.
  • * 2013 , Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian , 12 April 2013:
    • More than 70 non-state armed groups were recorded as using the weapons, including 12 that fired rockets and mortars from Gaza into Israel.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sociopolitical entity other than a state.
  • * 2005 , Ann Hironaka, Neverending wars :
    • States that fail to sufficiently attend to the "imagined" attributes of statehood required by the international system risk being deemed nonstates by the international community...

    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...