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Nonuse vs Nonuser - What's the difference?

nonuse | nonuser |

As nouns the difference between nonuse and nonuser

is that nonuse is the failure to make use of something while nonuser is a person who is not a user (of drugs, a computer system, etc).

nonuse

English

Alternative forms

*non-use

Noun

(-)
  • The failure to make use of something.
  • *2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 771:
  • *:Sacred values, and the taboos that protect them, can be attached to resources that we decide are genuinely precious, such as identifiable lives, national borders, and the nonuse of chemical and nuclear weapons.

    • nonuser

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is not a user (of drugs, a computer system, etc.).
  • Lack of usage; failure to use.
    • An office may be forfeited by misuser or nonuser — William Blackstone.
  • (legal) Neglect or omission to use an easement or franchise or to assert a right.
    • Kent.

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